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) -- Pay attention, Shaq: Two North Carolina State University engineers have figured out the best way to shoot a free throw - a frequently underappreciated skill that gets more important as the game clock winds down. http://www.physorg.com/news176578811.html Technology Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:40:40 EST news176578811 (PhysOrg.com) -- A team led by Manfred Scheer at the University of Regensburg has now synthesized the first example of an inorganic, carbon-free C80 analogue. http://www.physorg.com/news160311135.html Chemistry Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:54:09 EST news160311135 My video-game addiction took on a new, smaller footprint after the holidays. Resigning myself to the fact that my four-year-old iPod was never going to die of its own accord, I proactively put the clunky, white model with the ugly monochrome screen out to pasture and treated myself to a 32-gigabyte iPod Touch ($399). Just doing my bit to jump-start the economy, you know. http://www.physorg.com/news154807601.html Electronics Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:08:01 EST news154807601 (PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers are getting ready to pack NASA's Kepler spacecraft into a container and ship it off to its launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The mission, scheduled to launch on March 5, will seek to answer an age-old question -- are there other Earths in space? http://www.physorg.com/news148839560.html Space & Earth Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:19:20 EST news148839560 (PhysOrg.com) -- Ken Harvey, former linebacker for the Washington Redskins is trying to capture the imagination of young people by proposing a 21st century game of "Float Ball" to be played in zero-gravity. The Xtreme game of Float Ball combines elements of football and basketball with weightless players bouncing off walls, banging up against each other with the objective of moving varied colored floating balls to each end of the playing field. Extra points are given for stuffing a player carrying a designated color ball into a hoop. Initially, the game can be played in retrofitted grounded planes. The next step may include "Float Ball on the Moon" and perhaps someday a "Float Ball" stadium on Mars. Sounds extreme and perhaps lofty, but there´s science behind Harvey´s plan. http://www.physorg.com/news146765371.html Space & Earth Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:09:31 EST news146765371 At the 61st Meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics this week, a team of researchers from Arizona State University and the University of Maryland is reporting research that may soon give avid golfers another way to improve their game. http://www.physorg.com/news146722976.html Physics Mon, 24 Nov 2008 04:22:56 EST news146722976 In future it can be expected that the drill used in material processing will become even faster and the compressor used for vehicles and airplanes even more compact. In order to drive these rotary applications directly, efficiently and in a controlled fashion, there must be electrical drive systems with the appropriate rpm and engine power. http://www.physorg.com/news145877896.html Technology Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:38:16 EST news145877896 (PhysOrg.com) -- Buzz buzz...it`s a goal for the home team! By synchronizing a cell phone`s vibrations with the ball in the field, researchers have designed a method that allows cell phone users to experience soccer games in a new way. http://www.physorg.com/news144586291.html Technology Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:51:31 EST news144586291 The American Institute of Mathematics announces that Soundararajan and Roman Holowinsky have proven a significant version of the quantum unique ergodicity conjecture. Their work, based in the pure mathematics area of number theory, illuminates deep connections between classical and quantum physics in what is being hailed as one of the best theorems of the year. http://www.physorg.com/news142834558.html Other Sciences Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:15:58 EST news142834558 (PhysOrg.com) -- Baseball is elegant in its simplicity. Pitch a ball, hit the ball. Score more runs than your opponent and you win the game. http://www.physorg.com/news141654717.html Electronics Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:31:57 EST news141654717 Baseball diamonds are a left-hander's best friend. That's because the game was designed to make a lefty the "Natural," according to David A. Peters, Ph.D., the McDonnell Douglas Professor of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, and uber baseball fan. Peters is a mechanical engineer who specializes in aircraft and helicopter engineering and has a different approach to viewing America's Favorite Pastime. http://www.physorg.com/news134671379.html Other Sciences Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:42:59 EST news134671379