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. (PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have created the architecture, hardware and software that will enable super-agile distributed corporations capable of reconfiguring themselves on the fly. It promises to make 'made-to-order' a reality for consumers. http://www.physorg.com/news178913221.html Technology Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:20:04 EST news178913221 A team of scientists from The Forsyth Institute, the University of Connecticut Health Center, the CDC and the Wadsworth Center, have used state-of-the-art technology to elucidate the molecular architecture of Treponema pallidum, the bacterium which causes syphilis. The previously unknown detailed structure of the bacteria can now be shown in three dimensions. This provides the first real image of the pathogen and reveals previously unknown features, which may help fight the spread of syphilis. http://www.physorg.com/news178810220.html Biology Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:30:02 EST news178810220 NVIDIA Corporation today unveiled the Tesla 20-series of parallel processors for the high performance computing (HPC) market, based on its new generation CUDA processor architecture, codenamed "Fermi". http://www.physorg.com/news177617175.html Electronics Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:30:08 EST news177617175 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 Very tiny wires, called nanowires, made from such metals as silver and gold, may play a crucial role as electrical or mechanical switches in the development of future-generation ultrasmall nanodevices. http://www.physorg.com/news176047225.html Nanotechnology Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:00:02 EST news176047225 A multidisciplinary team of UC researchers is the first to find an innovative and novel way to control an electron's spin orientation using purely electrical means. http://www.physorg.com/news175871026.html Nanotechnology Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:05:04 EST news175871026 The world's fastest supercomputer, Roadrunner, at Los Alamos National Laboratory has completed its initial "shakedown" phase doing accelerated petascale computer modeling and simulations of a variety of unclassified, fundamental science projects. http://www.physorg.com/news175781501.html Electronics Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:13:49 EST news175781501 Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Labs Pittsburgh (ILP) have combined low-power, embedded processors typically used in netbooks with flash memory to create a server architecture that is fast, but far more energy efficient for data-intensive applications than the systems now used by major Internet services. http://www.physorg.com/news174741979.html Electronics Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:27:53 EST news174741979 Could sustainable architecture address pollution, climate change and resource depletion by helping us build self-sufficient, off-grid, housing from "waste", including vehicle tires and metal drinks containers? That's the question researchers at the University of South Australia hope to answer in the International Journal of Sustainable Design. http://www.physorg.com/news174663218.html Space & Earth Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:20:11 EST news174663218 The molecular architecture of a protein complex that helps determine the fate of human cells has been imaged for the first time by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Known as a human RISC-loading complex, this structure consists of snippets of ribonucleic acid (RNA) that control whether genetic messages are silenced or expressed. http://www.physorg.com/news174651185.html Chemistry Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:14:03 EST news174651185 After two years of design, experimentation, fund-raising and building, the University of Arizona's Solar Decathlon team has completed construction of its 800-square-foot solar-powered house on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. http://www.physorg.com/news174220511.html Technology Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:50:03 EST news174220511 Archaeologists have unveiled the remains of a revolving banquet room built by the Roman emperor Nero, who ruled between 54 and 68 BC and was famed for his depraved and extravagant lifestyle, a statement said Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news174154217.html Other Sciences Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:20:16 EST news174154217 (AP) -- Archaeologists on Tuesday unveiled what they think are the remains of Roman emperor Nero's extravagant banquet hall, a circular space that rotated day and night to imitate the Earth's movement and impress his guests. http://www.physorg.com/news173459540.html Other Sciences Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:30:06 EST news173459540 Alcatel-Lucent today announced that scientists in Bell Labs, the company`s research arm, have set a new optical transmission record of more than 100 Petabits per second.kilometer (equivalent to 100 million Gigabits per second.kilometer). http://www.physorg.com/news173455192.html Technology Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:00:27 EST news173455192 (PhysOrg.com) -- Anyone who has visited the ancient ruins of great civilizations can appreciate the difficulty of visualizing the buildings at their peak. Today's visitor to the British Museum can see structures of the Aztecs, thanks to one professor's research into the ancient architecture that served as the center stage of Aztec ceremonial life, combined with an ultra-modern electronic digital modeling process. http://www.physorg.com/news172911763.html Technology Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:05:58 EST news172911763 IBM today announced the industry's highest performance, highest throughput processor for system-on-chip (SoC) product families in the communication, storage, consumer, and aerospace and defense markets. http://www.physorg.com/news172243811.html Electronics Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:34:06 EST news172243811 (PhysOrg.com) -- IBM scientists have demonstrated a promising and practical method that effectively eliminates the mechanical wear in the nanometer-sharp tips used in scanning probe-based techniques. This discovery can potentially be used in the development of next generation, more advanced computer chips that have higher performance and smaller feature sizes. Scanning probe-based tools could be one approach to extend the capabilities, quality and precision beyond the projected limits of current production and characterization tools. http://www.physorg.com/news171563990.html Nanotechnology Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:40:35 EST news171563990 The "Immersive Dome" puts viewers at the heart of the action and lets them actively participate. Instead of the conventional surround sound, a three-dimensional aural experience awaits visitors. At IBC, the trade show for the electronics media industry in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, two institutes of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft debut the "Immersive Dome." http://www.physorg.com/news169474860.html Technology Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:50:01 EST news169474860 (PhysOrg.com) -- The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) has released an open-source version of its popular FalconView software. The program displays topographical maps, aeronautical charts, satellite images and other maps, along with overlay tools that can be displayed on any map background. http://www.physorg.com/news169313918.html Technology Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:50:01 EST news169313918 The human eye lens consists of a highly concentrated mix of several proteins. Protective proteins prevent these proteins from aggregating and clumping. If this protective function fails, the lens blurs and the patient develops cataracts. http://www.physorg.com/news168253150.html Biology Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:10:01 EST news168253150 Deep beneath Lake Huron, signs of the Great Lakes' first human settlers are emerging. http://www.physorg.com/news165753727.html Other Sciences Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:42:44 EST news165753727 (PhysOrg.com) -- MIT engineers have built a fast, ultra-broadband, low-power radio chip, modeled on the human inner ear, that could enable wireless devices capable of receiving cell phone, Internet, radio and television signals. http://www.physorg.com/news163242050.html Technology Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:01:26 EST news163242050 The origins of many adult diseases can be traced to early negative experiences associated with social class and other markers of disadvantage. Confronting the causes of adversity before and shortly after birth may be a promising way to improve adult health and reduce premature deaths, researchers argue in a paper published today in The Journal of the American Medical Association. These adversities establish biological "memories" that weaken physiological systems and make individuals vulnerable to problems that can lie dormant for years. http://www.physorg.com/news163183085.html Medicine & Health Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:53:29 EST news163183085 HP today announced the launch of a new display technology for the personalization of consumer electronics products. http://www.physorg.com/news163089576.html Technology Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:40:25 EST news163089576 Shirly Sieh, a PhD student at IHBI, is studying the way cancer cells escape from the prostate through the bloodstream to form tumour colonies, most often in the spine and long bones. http://www.physorg.com/news159789739.html Medicine & Health Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:02:50 EST news159789739 The eyes of nocturnal mammals contain particularly large numbers of the highly light-sensitive rods, the photoreceptor type used for night vision. This allows the detection of light levels millions of times lower than daylight. Researchers at the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research Frankfurt and the Cavendish Laboratory Cambridge have now shown that the nocturnal lifestyle and its visual challenges had a unique impact on rod nuclear organisation: The distributions of the densely packed inactive and the less densely packed active regions of DNA differ remarkably from those in other somatic cells of nearly all organisms from protozoans to multicellular animals, including the rods of diurnal mammals. http://www.physorg.com/news159452861.html Biology Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:28:49 EST news159452861 The outlook is bleak for laptops, hard drives and desktops - clouds are on the horizon and could change the way we use computers forever. For some, the ‘cloud` is just the latest technological craze, but for others it is the future of computing, and it has already generated a large body of research literature. What seems certain is that cloud computing has the potential to bring about irreversible changes in the way computers are used around the world. http://www.physorg.com/news159108551.html Technology Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:49:43 EST news159108551 Researchers have discovered an important element for making night vision possible in nocturnal mammals: the DNA within the photoreceptor rod cells responsible for low light vision is packaged in a very unconventional way, according to a report in the April 17th issue of Cell, a Cell Press publication. That special DNA architecture turns the rod cell nuclei themselves into tiny light-collecting lenses, with millions of them in every nocturnal eye. http://www.physorg.com/news159105142.html Biology Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:53:01 EST news159105142 Fujitsu Limited today announced that it has developed new mainframe sever models, the ultra-high performance GS21 1600 model group and the high-performance GS21 1400 model group, both of which employ a new Fujitsu processor that places four CPUs on a single chip(1). Sales of the new models began in Japan today. http://www.physorg.com/news159033915.html Electronics Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:05:56 EST news159033915 A University of Colorado at Boulder professor says the powerful earthquake that knocked down buildings and killed at least 130 people in and around the medieval city of L'Aquila in Italy April 6 is a continuation of violent seismic events that have periodically rocked the region dating back to Roman times. http://www.physorg.com/news158261104.html Space & Earth Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:25:50 EST news158261104