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. Fans of fine art will be able to access some of their favourite paintings anywhere they choose through a new iPhone application launched Tuesday by the National Gallery in London. http://www.physorg.com/news167410311.html Electronics Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:52:22 EST news167410311 Larry Wackett and Michael Sadowsky, members of the University of Minnesota's BioTechnology Institute, developed an enzyme that is used in Bioo Scientific's new MaxDiscovery(TM) Melamine Test kit, which simplifies the detection of melamine contamination in food. Melamine is an industrial chemical that killed six Chinese children and hospitalized 150,000 last year after it was added to milk to increase its apparent protein content. Some children may have life-long chronic kidney problems resulting from melamine exposure. http://www.physorg.com/news167401193.html Chemistry Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:50:06 EST news167401193 (AP) -- The Associated Press is proposing that publishers attach descriptive tags to news articles online in hopes of taming the free-for-all of news and information on the Web and generating more traffic for established media brands. http://www.physorg.com/news166470997.html Technology Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:56:58 EST news166470997 A Swedish gaming group said Tuesday it would buy The Pirate Bay, one of the world's most popular filesharing sites, for 5.6 million euros (7.8 million dollars). http://www.physorg.com/news165575209.html Technology Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:07:12 EST news165575209 Plants grown under high CO2 and drought conditions show an increase in toxic compounds, a decrease in protein content and a decrease in yield. Dr. Ros Gleadow will present her findings at the Society for Experimental Biology meeting on Monday, June 29, where she will discuss these results and the consequent requirement for new cultivars in order to sustain food production in a future environment. http://www.physorg.com/news165489315.html Biology Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:15:37 EST news165489315 People smell them, thump them and eyeball their shape. But ultimately, it's sweetness and a sense of healthy eating that lands a melon in a shopper's cart. http://www.physorg.com/news165254989.html Biology Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:10:17 EST news165254989 Spring weather has been less than favorable for harvesting hay, keeping many Indiana hay producers out of their fields, said Keith Johnson, Purdue Extension forage specialist. http://www.physorg.com/news165081591.html Biology Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:00:02 EST news165081591 Now there's a new reason for the weight-conscious to drink fat free milk at breakfast time, suggests a new study published in the July issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Researchers in Australia found that drinking fat free milk in the morning helped increase satiety, or a feeling of fullness, and led to decreased calorie intake at the next meal, as compared with a fruit drink. The milk drinkers ate about 50 fewer calories (or nearly 9% less food) at lunch. http://www.physorg.com/news164878577.html Medicine & Health Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:40:01 EST news164878577 China stepped up its war on Internet censorship Thursday, slamming Google China for allowing pornographic content to seep into the nation and threatening to punish the search engine. http://www.physorg.com/news164536943.html Technology Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:42:51 EST news164536943 In this week's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PNAS, Uppsala University scientists describe a new mechanism behind an important process that causes a rapid reduction of DNA in the chromosomes of bacteria. The findings advance our knowledge of how DNA content has been reduced, which is something that has occurred in bacteria that live as parasites inside the cells of other organisms. http://www.physorg.com/news163699985.html Medicine & Health Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:13:28 EST news163699985 The secret of a successful sandcastle could aid the revival of an ancient eco-friendly building technique, according to research led by Durham University. http://www.physorg.com/news163192352.html Technology Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:13:30 EST news163192352 (PhysOrg.com) -- Large bombardments of meteorites approximately four billion years ago could have helped to make the early Earth and Mars more habitable for life by modifying their atmospheres, suggests the results of a paper published today in the journal Geochimica et Cosmochima Acta. http://www.physorg.com/news163071856.html Space & Earth Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:44:47 EST news163071856 User photographs can still be found on many social networking sites including Facebook after people have deleted them, British researchers said Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news162113863.html Technology Thu, 21 May 2009 08:38:13 EST news162113863 A research project led by Dr Joydeep Bhattacharya at Goldsmiths, University of London has shown that it is possible to influence emotional evaluation of visual stimuli by listening to musical excerpts before the evaluation. http://www.physorg.com/news160850020.html Medicine & Health Wed, 06 May 2009 17:34:36 EST news160850020 As people become more educated, studies have demonstrated that they tend to choose foods that are lower in calories but higher in nutrients. They also pay more. In a study published in the May 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, researchers from the University of Washington compared the eating habits and food costs of a sample of 164 adults in the Seattle, Washington area. http://www.physorg.com/news160376511.html Medicine & Health Fri, 01 May 2009 06:02:14 EST news160376511 The genetic predisposition of cows has an effect on the fat and protein content of their milk. Researchers at Wageningen University have spent the past few years examining the scope and significance of genetic variation between cows for the differences in quality characteristics of milk. They have discovered a number of genes that contribute to this genetic variation. http://www.physorg.com/news160215986.html Biology Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:27:30 EST news160215986 (AP) -- Google Inc.'s YouTube said Thursday it is vastly expanding its library of full-length movies and TV shows it offers online, while also launching a new advertising service and adding about a dozen new content partners. http://www.physorg.com/news159127464.html Technology Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:04:49 EST news159127464 (AP) -- A new service being developed by three media veterans will try to save beleaguered newspaper and magazine publishers by charging for their Internet content. http://www.physorg.com/news158951747.html Technology Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:16:26 EST news158951747 (PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have created a new software abstraction called Autonomic Communication Elements (ACEs) which will enable ecosystems for service networks, and make the future ‘internet of things` a reality, now. http://www.physorg.com/news158848664.html Technology Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:38:50 EST news158848664 State laws that prohibit people under the age of 21 from purchasing or possessing alcohol, and from driving with any alcohol in their system save 732 lives a year in the United States, according to a study released today that has examined 23 years of research on the subject. The study further shows that if every state adopted 'use and lose' laws -suspending the license of anyone under 21 cited for possession, consumption or attempt to purchase alcohol -an additional 165 lives would be saved. http://www.physorg.com/news158345777.html Medicine & Health Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:56:37 EST news158345777 Scientists in China are reporting development of a low-calorie, low-sugar vegetable juice custom-designed for millions of individuals with diabetes and pre-diabetic conditions that involve abnormally high blood sugar. They reported on the new drink here at the 237th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society. http://www.physorg.com/news157289022.html Chemistry Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:24:30 EST news157289022 Faced with a torrent of complaints over its latest redesign, the social networking hub Facebook has vowed a series of "improvements" to eliminate clutter and make the website more user friendly. http://www.physorg.com/news157186854.html Technology Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:01:25 EST news157186854 Average blood levels of vitamin D appear to have decreased in the United States between 1994 and 2004, according to a report in the March 23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news157050961.html Medicine & Health Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:17:04 EST news157050961 A short rainy season and desertification make growing food in northern Ghana difficult enough. It doesn't help that in this western African country there is little fuel available to power tractors for planting crops or to power grain milling. http://www.physorg.com/news156714111.html Biology Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:42:53 EST news156714111 Wondering which paper towel or toilet paper is the greenest? The nonprofit advocacy group Greenpeace has released a pocket guide to paper products -- an updated version of the old National Resources Defense Council guide. The products also include facial tissues and paper napkins, although many people suggest ANY paper napkin is not a good thing. Use cloth until it's dirty, wash it with the rest of the clothes and skip the ironing. http://www.physorg.com/news155829622.html Space & Earth Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:01:06 EST news155829622 Scientists in Germany are reporting development of a new, more effective method to determine whether milk marketed as "organic" is genuine or just ordinary milk mislabeled to hoodwink consumers. Their report appears in the current edition of ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. http://www.physorg.com/news155189711.html Chemistry Mon, 02 Mar 2009 04:15:37 EST news155189711 Most of us don't watch television the way we did just a few short years ago. Back then, we had to watch TV shows when they were aired, a slave to the broadcasting schedule whim of the networks. http://www.physorg.com/news154968809.html Technology Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:54:12 EST news154968809 New York newspaper Newsday plans to start charging users of its website, a top executive of the company which owns the daily said Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news154937528.html Technology Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:12:58 EST news154937528 Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) are strongly encouraging prenatal vitamin manufacturers to use only potassium iodide and not other sources of iodine in their products. According to the researchers, potassium iodide is the best way to ensure that prenatal vitamins given to expectant mothers receive 150µg of supplemental daily iodine as recommended by the American Thyroid Association. The researchers' recommendation appears as a research letter in the February 26th issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news154806918.html Medicine & Health Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:55:45 EST news154806918 The practice of no-till has increased considerably during the past 20 yr. Soils under no-till usually host a more abundant and diverse biota and are less prone to erosion, water loss, and structural breakdown than tilled soils. Their organic matter content is also often increased and consequently, no-till is proposed as a measure to mitigate the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration. However, recent studies show that the effect of no-till on carbon sequestration can be variable depending on soil and climatic conditions, and nutrient management practices. http://www.physorg.com/news154780086.html Space & Earth Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:28:28 EST news154780086