http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (AP) -- A Paris court ruled Friday that Google Inc.'s expansion into digital books breaks France's copyright laws, and a judge slapped the Internet search leader with a euro10,000-a-day fine until it stops showing literary snippets. http://www.physorg.com/news180378174.html Technology Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:04:13 EST news180378174 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have spent decades searching for the elusive material known as dark matter, which is believed to make up 25 percent of the universe. On Thursday, Dec. 17, a team of physicists including some at MIT reported possible evidence of two dark matter particles in a detector located in a former iron mine in Minnesota. http://www.physorg.com/news180365061.html Physics Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:25:02 EST news180365061 By studying the signatures of fossil life on Earth, geobiologists can get a clue of what to look for when hunting for extraterrestrial life on Mars. http://www.physorg.com/news180364566.html Space & Earth Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:16:50 EST news180364566 A French court on Friday told Google that it cannot digitise French books without publishers' approval and ordered the online giant to pay 300,000 euros (430,000 dollars) in damages. http://www.physorg.com/news180350260.html Technology Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:18:22 EST news180350260 (AP) -- France's efforts to digitize its culture, from Marcel Proust's manuscripts to the first films of the legendary Lumiere brothers, long have been bogged down by the country's reluctance to rely on help from American Internet giant Google Inc. A new startup launched Thursday says it may be the answer. http://www.physorg.com/news180297842.html Technology Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:20:03 EST news180297842 (AP) -- Over the past week, Facebook has been nudging its users - first gently, then firmly - to review and update their privacy settings. http://www.physorg.com/news180290362.html Technology Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:00:05 EST news180290362 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new carbon support that greatly increases the durability of proton-exchange membrane fuel cells has been developed by scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Princeton University. This new material significantly improves the stability of the fuel cell catalyst and will potentially lower the cost of these fuel cells. This breakthrough research hit number one on the most-downloaded list of Electrochemistry Communications articles this fall. http://www.physorg.com/news180286762.html Nanotechnology Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:40:06 EST news180286762 Bing and Google gained ground in the Internet search market in November as they evidently lure people away from Yahoo!, according to fresh figures from industry-tracker comScore. http://www.physorg.com/news180266247.html Technology Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:58:03 EST news180266247 (PhysOrg.com) -- Spacetime, which consists of three dimensions of space and one time dimension, is such a large, abstract concept that scientists have a very difficult time understanding and defining it. Moreover, different theories offer different, contradictory insights on spacetime`s structure. While general relativity describes spacetime as a continuous manifold, quantum field theories require spacetime to be made of discrete points. Unifying these two theories into one theory of quantum gravity is currently one of the biggest unsolved problems in physics. http://www.physorg.com/news180203376.html Physics Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:34:34 EST news180203376 (PhysOrg.com) -- The American coot is a drab, seemingly unremarkable marsh bird common throughout North America. But its reproductive life is full of deception and violence. http://www.physorg.com/news180193135.html Biology Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:10:04 EST news180193135 Fraunhofer IWES (Germany) presents the OGEMA Alliance, which will offer an open software platform for energy management. http://www.physorg.com/news180180547.html Technology Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:11:51 EST news180180547 Australia on Wednesday dismissed as "baseless" claims it was proposing a China-style plan for mandatory filtering of the internet and denied the system could be abused to silence free speech. http://www.physorg.com/news180166233.html Technology Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:50:02 EST news180166233 Microsoft announced that a Bing application tailored for Apple's beloved iPhones has hit the virtual shelves of its longtime rival's online App Store. http://www.physorg.com/news180166153.html Technology Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:20:02 EST news180166153 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists once thought that life could originate only within a solar system's "habitable zone," where a planet would be neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist on its surface. But according to planetary scientist Francis Nimmo, evidence from recent NASA missions suggests that conditions necessary for life may exist on the icy satellites of Saturn and Jupiter. http://www.physorg.com/news180112635.html Space & Earth Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:55:19 EST news180112635 Twitter is testing a way to let businesses better use the popular microblogging service in what could be a future money-making opportunity. http://www.physorg.com/news180122428.html Technology Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:00:52 EST news180122428