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. Researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed a unique new computer model called the Virtual StreamLab, designed to help restore real streams to a healthier state. The Virtual StreamLab, which demonstrates the physics of natural water flows at an unprecedented level of detail and realism, was unveiled for the first time this week at the 2009 American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics meeting in Minneapolis, one of the largest conferences in fluid dynamics with more than 1,500 attendees from around the world. http://www.physorg.com/news178315462.html Physics Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:20:02 EST news178315462 A bit of imagination on the part of a measuring instrument wouldn't be a bad thing. It could help to add data from areas where the instrument is unable to measure. However, it must do so constructively. In order to infer missing data in an astronomical measurement with more than just imagination, physicists at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics have formulated a theory of spatial perception called information field theory. http://www.physorg.com/news178209326.html Physics Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:36:47 EST news178209326 A new statistical technique developed by researchers at the University of Illinois allows scientists to scan a genome for specific gene-regulatory regions without requiring prior knowledge of the relevant transcription factors. The technique has been experimentally validated in both the mouse genome and the fruit fly genome. http://www.physorg.com/news177859128.html Biology Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:19:22 EST news177859128 If you've ever gotten the dreaded "network busy" message while trying to make a cell phone call, you've experienced the complication of sharing a single network with numerous other users. http://www.physorg.com/news177692830.html Technology Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:08:04 EST news177692830 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have embraced the Grid, but businesses have held back, concerned about complexity and security. Now a European research team has built a platform opening the Grid's vast resources to business users. http://www.physorg.com/news177671538.html Technology Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:30:01 EST news177671538 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has successfully completed a series of autonomous "drop" tests of a robotic lander test article - in a record 10 months - to demonstrate the ability to perform a controlled landing on the moon or other airless planetary bodies. http://www.physorg.com/news177614572.html Space & Earth Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:23:23 EST news177614572 In a study that promises to improve diagnosis and monitoring of Alzheimer's disease, scientists at the University of California, San Diego have developed a fast and accurate method for quantifying subtle, sub-regional brain volume loss using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The study will be published the week of November 16 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). http://www.physorg.com/news177608940.html Medicine & Health Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:20:05 EST news177608940 (PhysOrg.com) -- In a recently published paper, Aram Harrow at the University of Bristol and colleagues from MIT in the United States have discovered a quantum algorithm that solves large problems much faster than conventional computers can. http://www.physorg.com/news177011105.html Physics Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:20:02 EST news177011105 (PhysOrg.com) -- The gnawing pain of rheumatoid arthritis is a signal that the body`s immune system has hit the wrong target: its own cartilage and bone. http://www.physorg.com/news176978059.html Medicine & Health Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:35:22 EST news176978059 A researcher of the University of Granada, Spain, has designed a new system for the mobility of military troops within a battlefield based on the mechanisms used by ant colonies to move using a commercial videogame. http://www.physorg.com/news176726947.html Technology Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:00:02 EST news176726947 (PhysOrg.com) -- Astronauts may in future be wearing spacesuits equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) and digital eyes, turning them into what the researchers call cyborg astrobiologists. http://www.physorg.com/news176552331.html Space & Earth Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:10:01 EST news176552331 The eyes may be the mirror to the soul, but the iris reveals a person's true identity -its intricate structure constitutes a powerful biometric. A new report by computer scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology demonstrates that iris recognition algorithms can maintain their accuracy and interoperability with compact images, affirming their potential for large-scale identity management applications such as the federal Personal Identity Verification program, cyber security and counterterrorism. http://www.physorg.com/news176550111.html Technology Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:43:00 EST news176550111 Two of my best friends are named Pete. We went to the same high school and the same university, Cal State Fullerton, which has been described as "the Harvard of north Orange County" -- by me, at least. http://www.physorg.com/news176451879.html Technology Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:40:01 EST news176451879 (PhysOrg.com) -- Microsoft researches have teamed up with the University of Washington and the University of Toronto to develop a muscle-controlled interface that allows for hands-free, gesture-driven interaction with computers. http://www.physorg.com/news176132966.html Technology Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:50:09 EST news176132966 In the 1995 Halloween episode of The Simpsons, Homer Simpson finds a portal to the mysterious Third Dimension behind a bookcase, and desperate to escape his in-laws, he plunges through. He finds himself wandering across a dark surface etched with green gridlines and strewn with geometric shapes, above which hover strange equations. One of these is the deceptively simple assertion that P = NP. http://www.physorg.com/news176037013.html Technology Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:10:40 EST news176037013 Japanese researchers have developed a computer program which may be able tell from an emergency call if you are about to die. Research published in the open access journal BMC Emergency Medicine shows that a computer algorithm is able to predict the patient's risk of dying at the time of the emergency call. http://www.physorg.com/news175328694.html Medicine & Health Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:40:02 EST news175328694 (PhysOrg.com) -- If computers could recognize objects, they could automatically search through hours of video footage for a particular two-minute scene. A tourist strolling down a street in a strange city could take a cell-phone photo of an unmarked monument and immediately find out what it was. And an Internet image search on, say, "Shakespeare" would pull up pictures of Shakespeare, not pictures of Gwyneth Paltrow in the movie Shakespeare in Love. Though object recognition is one of the major research topics in computer vision, MIT researchers may have found a way to make it much more practical. http://www.physorg.com/news174646349.html Technology Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:30:07 EST news174646349 (PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Dundee graduate has created a computer system with the potential to make the game of Blackjack fairer by detecting card counters and dealer errors. http://www.physorg.com/news174491549.html Technology Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:02:28 EST news174491549 A sophisticated computational algorithm, applied to a large set of gene markers, has achieved greater accuracy than conventional methods in assessing individual risk for type 1 diabetes. http://www.physorg.com/news174284644.html Medicine & Health Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:40:01 EST news174284644 (PhysOrg.com) -- The first Twitter tool that ranks the popularity of individual messages plans to make the backchannel conversations at conferences and meetings more interesting. http://www.physorg.com/news173982466.html Technology Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:28:18 EST news173982466 Toshiba Corporation today unveiled the future of home entertainment, the CELL REGZA 55X1. http://www.physorg.com/news173977157.html Electronics Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:20:07 EST news173977157 Criminals are having a harder time hiding their faces, thanks to new software that helps witnesses recreate and recognize suspects using principles borrowed from the fields of optics and genetics. http://www.physorg.com/news173973620.html Technology Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:01:05 EST news173973620 (PhysOrg.com) -- An old man walks down the stairs in his home. Suddenly, he trips and falls. No one is home to help him. But soon he hears the reassuring clanging of approaching sirens. The surveillance system installed in his home worked: It alerted emergency services, and now, help is on the way. http://www.physorg.com/news173109730.html Technology Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:40:03 EST news173109730 A pair of French entrepreneurs has come up with a way to identify people whose Internet comments carry weight. http://www.physorg.com/news172998952.html Technology Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:16:23 EST news172998952 Google unveiled a new tool on Wednesday which allows notes and comments to be posted alongside Web pages for others to read. http://www.physorg.com/news172947651.html Technology Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:01:26 EST news172947651 (AP) -- Netflix Inc. declared a seven-member group of researchers, scientists and engineers from around the world as winners Monday of its three-year, $1 million contest to improve its movie recommendation system by at least 10 percent. http://www.physorg.com/news172753144.html Technology Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:59:30 EST news172753144 We intuitively understand the value of being able to make things smaller without sacrificing performance. The endeavor produces smaller speakers with bigger sound and a host of portable electronic devices such as digital cameras, cell phones and computers all of which continue to get smaller yet sport lots more functionality that their predecessors. And when it comes to our computer data, being able to store more in less space without sacrificing quality is also understandably desirable. Plus reducing a file's size also lets you send it faster online. http://www.physorg.com/news172483043.html Technology Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:30:01 EST news172483043 (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. is testing a way to display some search results as galleries of moveable images instead of text links, part of its ongoing attempt to differentiate its Bing search engine from Google. http://www.physorg.com/news172162893.html Technology Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:40:04 EST news172162893 (PhysOrg.com) -- A primitive quantum computer that uses single particles of light (photons) whizzing through a silicon chip has performed its first mathematical calculation. This is the first time a calculation has been performed on a photonic chip and it is major step forward in the quest to realise a super-powerful quantum computer. http://www.physorg.com/news171213314.html Physics Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:15:49 EST news171213314 (PhysOrg.com) -- A Swedish programmer, Hans Andersson, has used a Lego Mindstorms NXT kit to develop a robot to solve Sudoku puzzles. http://www.physorg.com/news171179534.html Electronics Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:30:02 EST news171179534