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. (AP) -- Amazon.com Inc. will release a larger - and more expensive - version of its Kindle electronic reading device that is geared toward periodicals and textbooks. http://www.physorg.com/news160827414.html Electronics Wed, 06 May 2009 11:17:24 EST news160827414 (AP) -- Kindle e-book retailer Amazon.com Inc. has purchased Lexcycle, a year-old company that makes the iPhone e-book application Stanza, in a move that ratchets up Amazon's presence in the electronic book market. http://www.physorg.com/news160126906.html Technology Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:42:10 EST news160126906 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Illinois have found a new way to make transistors smaller and faster. The technique uses self-assembled, self-aligned, and defect-free nanowire channels made of gallium arsenide. http://www.physorg.com/news159453806.html Nanotechnology Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:43:49 EST news159453806 Fujitsu Laboratories today announced the development of two new technologies designed to prevent the unwanted disclosure of data from lost universal serial bus (USB) memory devices and prevent uploads to file-sharing networks: a USB memory device technology that after a fixed period of time automatically erases data stored on the USB memory, and a file redirect technology which ensures that the data from the USB memory device can only be stored on a specified server. This creates a secure environment that protects confidential information and allows USB memory devices to be used as a convenient way to safely carry customer data back to one's own company to manage the data. http://www.physorg.com/news159201094.html Electronics Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:32:15 EST news159201094 (PhysOrg.com) -- The short-range wireless standard Bluetooth 3.0 will officially launch on April 21. The Bluetooth 3.0 standard is expected to deliver faster short-range wireless speeds up to 480 Mb per second. http://www.physorg.com/news158583319.html Technology Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:56:01 EST news158583319 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have designed tiny new sensor structures that could be used in novel security devices to detect poisons and explosives, or in highly sensitive medical sensors, according to research published tomorrow (8 April) in Nano Letters. http://www.physorg.com/news158330465.html Nanotechnology Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:41:38 EST news158330465 Palm is inviting outside developers to tailor applications for eagerly-awaited Pre smartphones that will be taking on heavyweights such as iPhone and BlackBerry. http://www.physorg.com/news157914530.html Electronics Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:09:12 EST news157914530 (PhysOrg.com) -- David Van Sickle is looking for a few pioneering asthmatics. He wants to attach a GPS device to their inhalers before they boldly go out into a spring world filled with allergens. http://www.physorg.com/news157306758.html Medicine & Health Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:20:06 EST news157306758 (PhysOrg.com) -- New research findings at MIT could lead to microchips that operate at much higher speeds than is possible with today's standard silicon chips, leading to cell phones and other communications systems that can transmit data much faster. http://www.physorg.com/news156698836.html Physics Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:27:54 EST news156698836 (AP) -- Google Inc. is making half a million books, unprotected by copyright, available for free on Sony Corp.'s electronic book-reading device, the companies were set to announce Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news156663310.html Electronics Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:35:47 EST news156663310 (PhysOrg.com) -- "Many groups have been working devices that make objects invisible," Che Ting Chan tells PhysOrg.com. `Most of these devices, however, encompass the object to be cloaked.` Chan, a scientist at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, believes that it is possible to create a cloaking device that would be able to render an object invisible without encompassing it. http://www.physorg.com/news156162633.html Physics Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:31:29 EST news156162633 (PhysOrg.com) -- A future sensor may take away a patient's breath while simultaneously determining whether the patient has breast cancer, lung cancer, diabetes or asthma. A University of Missouri researcher is developing a device that will analyze breath or urine samples for volatile markers inside the body that indicate disease. These volatile markers, such as alkanes, acetones or nitric oxide, give doctors clues about what is happening inside the body and can be used as a diagnostic tool. http://www.physorg.com/news155938204.html Chemistry Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:10:27 EST news155938204 In these harsh economic times, no one can begrudge you a little free fun. Especially if that fun comes on an iPhone, for which you paid a pretty penny back in the salad days of 2007-08. Here are a few free iPhone games to get your fun meter swinging toward the red zone, while keeping your bank account in the black. You can download them via iTunes, by clicking on "App Store" in the upper-left corner, or from the icon on your iPhone's touch screen. http://www.physorg.com/news155496335.html Technology Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:25:54 EST news155496335 (PhysOrg.com) -- IBM Research scientists today announced a landmark study in the field of nanoelectronics; the development and demonstration of novel techniques to measure the distribution of energy and heat in powered carbon nanotube devices. http://www.physorg.com/news155237369.html Nanotechnology Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:30:46 EST news155237369 (PhysOrg.com) -- Folding paper into shapes such as a crane or a butterfly is challenging enough for most people. Now imagine trying to fold something that's about a hundred times thinner than a human hair and then putting it to use as an electronic device. http://www.physorg.com/news154796282.html Nanotechnology Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:58:37 EST news154796282 An engineered metamaterial proved it can function as a state-of-the-art device in the complex terahertz range of the electromagnetic spectrum, setting a standard of performance for modulating tiny waves of radiation, according to a team of researchers from Boston College, the Los Alamos and Sandia national laboratories, and Boston University. http://www.physorg.com/news154698749.html Physics Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:53:21 EST news154698749 LG Electronics and Intel Corporation today announced a collaboration around mobile Internet devices (MIDs) based on Intel's next-generation MID hardware platform, codenamed "Moorestown," and Linux-based Moblin v2.0 software platform. The LG device is expected to be one of the first Moorestown designs to market. http://www.physorg.com/news154021237.html Technology Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:41:42 EST news154021237 (PhysOrg.com) -- A prototype "brain helmet" that provides real-time images of major blood vessels may enable emergency personnel to perform quick scans of potential stroke victims' brains, according to a team of Duke University bioengineers who developed the device. http://www.physorg.com/news153417596.html Medicine & Health Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:00:40 EST news153417596 (PhysOrg.com) -- Metal efficiently blocks radiation, such as that emitted by RFID chips - small data storage units that are integrated in various objects and transmit their information to a reading device. Now, it is possible to access the information on an RFID chip even if it is surrounded by metal. http://www.physorg.com/news152814174.html Technology Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:23:38 EST news152814174 (PhysOrg.com) -- A research group in Germany has discovered a semiconducting material that can switch its semiconducting properties -- turning from one type of semiconductor to another -- via a simple change in temperature. This intriguing behavior may make the material useful in efforts to create better performing integrated circuits, which form the backbone of almost all electronic devices. http://www.physorg.com/news152534700.html Physics Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:46:08 EST news152534700 The principle behind whispering galleries - where words spoken softly beneath a domed ceiling or in a vault can be clearly heard on the opposite side of the chamber - has been used to achieve what could prove to be a significant breakthrough in the miniaturization of lasers. Ultrasmall lasers, i.e., nanoscale, promise a wide variety of intriguing applications, including superfast communications and data handling (photonics), and optical microchips for instant and detailed chemical analyses. http://www.physorg.com/news152012068.html Physics Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:35:03 EST news152012068 (PhysOrg.com) -- A team of physicists and engineers has demonstrated an optical device that filters two particles of light (or photons) based on the correlations between their polarisation that are only allowed in the seemingly bizarre quantum world. This so called "entanglement filter" passes the pair of photons only if they inhabit the same quantum state, without the user (or anything else) ever knowing what that state is. http://www.physorg.com/news151857190.html Physics Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:34:53 EST news151857190 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) are working on a better way to handle supplies in a war zone: a semi-autonomous forklift that can be directed by people safely away from the dangers of the site. http://www.physorg.com/news151772257.html Electronics Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:58:19 EST news151772257 (PhysOrg.com) -- One of the grand goals in nanotechnology is to develop a single microfluidic device that integrates all of the components needed to perform polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based nucleic acid analyses. Experts predict that such a device would enable researchers to develop rapid assays for cancer and other life-threatening diseases while a patient is in the doctor`s office. http://www.physorg.com/news151345628.html Nanotechnology Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:27:08 EST news151345628 A device that can bestow invisibility to an object by "cloaking" it from visual light is closer to reality. After being the first to demonstrate the feasibility of such a device by constructing a prototype in 2006, a team of Duke University engineers has produced a new type of cloaking device, which is significantly more sophisticated at cloaking in a broad range of frequencies. http://www.physorg.com/news151251853.html Physics Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:24:13 EST news151251853 Northwest Missouri State University students started spring semester classes Monday, but many aren't lugging thick textbooks around campus. http://www.physorg.com/news151174757.html Technology Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:59:17 EST news151174757 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in MIT`s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) are working on a better way to handle supplies in a war zone: a semi-autonomous forklift that can be directed by people safely away from the dangers of the site. http://www.physorg.com/news151161606.html Electronics Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:20:06 EST news151161606 A team of engineers at Singapore's Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) has created a white-space sensing device that has received approval for further development by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). http://www.physorg.com/news149180778.html Technology Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:06:18 EST news149180778 (PhysOrg.com) -- A prototype of a therapeutic ultrasound device, developed by a Cornell graduate student, fits in the palm of a hand, is battery-powered and packs enough punch to stabilize a gunshot wound or deliver drugs to brain cancer patients. It is wired to a ceramic probe, called a transducer, and it creates sound waves so strong they instantly cause water to bubble, spray and turn into steam. http://www.physorg.com/news148916503.html Medicine & Health Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:41:43 EST news148916503 (PhysOrg.com) -- MIT engineers have built a device that gives them an unprecedented view of three-dimensional cell growth and migration, including the formation of blood vessels and the spread of tumor cells. http://www.physorg.com/news148659608.html Chemistry Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:20:08 EST news148659608