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. The Sun is a bubbling mass. Packages of gas rise and sink, lending the sun its grainy surface structure, its granulation. Dark spots appear and disappear, clouds of matter dart up - and behind the whole thing are the magnetic fields, the engines of it all. The SUNRISE balloon-borne telescope, a collaborative project between the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Katlenburg-Lindau and partners in Germany, Spain and the USA, has now delivered images that show the complex interplay on the solar surface to a level of detail never before achieved. http://www.physorg.com/news177164239.html Space & Earth Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:17:58 EST news177164239 (PhysOrg.com) -- An armada of robots may one day fly above the mountain tops of Saturn's moon Titan, cross its vast dunes and sail in its liquid lakes. http://www.physorg.com/news175942377.html Space & Earth Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:53:26 EST news175942377 (PhysOrg.com) -- When we think of taking pictures of the earth from space, we assume that a great deal of money has to be spent on high-tech equipment and complex vehicles to get the camera up there. But, as a student at MIT has managed to prove, you can get great pictures from space for $150. http://www.physorg.com/news173709451.html Technology Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:38:07 EST news173709451 Physicians at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York became the first in the U.S. to ablate atrial fibrillation using a visually-guided laser balloon catheter. The procedure was performed September 15 by Vivek Y. Reddy, MD, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Cardiac Arrhythmia Service at Mount Sinai Heart, and his colleague, Srinivas R. Dukkipati, MD, Director of Mount Sinai's Experimental Electrophysiology Laboratory. http://www.physorg.com/news172513773.html Medicine & Health Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:00:01 EST news172513773 For some patients with acute coronary syndromes, the strategy of immediate intervention at a medical center does not appear to result in differences in outcomes in comparison with an intervention performed the next working day, according to a study in the September 2 issue of JAMA. http://www.physorg.com/news171046665.html Medicine & Health Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:10:08 EST news171046665 Patients with a certain genetic variation who received the antiplatelet drug clopidogrel had a decreased platelet response to treatment and among those who had percutaneous coronary intervention (procedures such as balloon angioplasty or stent placement used to open narrowed coronary arteries) had an increased risk of having a cardiovascular event in the following year than patients who did not have this variant, according to a study in the August 26 issue of JAMA. http://www.physorg.com/news170438381.html Medicine & Health Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:50:01 EST news170438381 Climate change is rapidly expanding the size of the world's tropical zone, threatening to bring disease and drought to heavily populated areas, an Australian study has found. http://www.physorg.com/news166081900.html Space & Earth Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:52:09 EST news166081900 Round-the-world balloooning pioneer Bertrand Piccard unveiled his solar-powered aircraft in Switzerland on Friday, ready for another trend-setting circumnavigation of the globe powered solely by the sun. http://www.physorg.com/news165236897.html Technology Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:09:00 EST news165236897 (PhysOrg.com) -- University of Delaware researchers in Sweden have launched a giant balloon taller than a football field that is now flying at the edge of space to collect data on cosmic rays -- the most super-charged particles in the universe. http://www.physorg.com/news162143391.html Space & Earth Thu, 21 May 2009 19:35:59 EST news162143391 (PhysOrg.com) -- A group of cockroaches recently took a ride on a high-altitude balloon launched into space by freshmen aerospace engineering students from the University of California, San Diego. The cockroaches were put in a variety of capsules to see how they would survive in different extreme environments, including cold temperatures (-40 degrees F), minimal atmosphere and high solar radiation. The capsules were first ground tested in a cold vacuum chamber to insure the chambers would survive the cold and near vacuum of space without bursting. The high-altitude balloon experiment came off without a hitch--all the cockroaches survived. http://www.physorg.com/news156101965.html Space & Earth Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:40:49 EST news156101965 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA and the National Science Foundation have successfully launched and demonstrated a newly designed super pressure balloon prototype that may enable a new era of high-altitude scientific research. The super-pressure balloon ultimately will carry large scientific experiments to the brink of space for 100 days or more. http://www.physorg.com/news150728447.html Space & Earth Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:00:47 EST news150728447 People in Paris won't have to look far to see the city's air pollution levels. A giant tethered helium balloon will display real-time reports of atmospheric pollution using an innovative lighting system, which can be seen from more than 20 km (12.4 miles) away. http://www.physorg.com/news134841402.html Space & Earth Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:56:42 EST news134841402