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. Seagate Technology today announced the Momentus Thin drive, the world's thinnest 2.5-inch hard disk drive for ultra-portable and entry-level laptops, high-end netbooks, backup devices and consumer electronics. At a wafer-thin 7mm in height - 25 percent slimmer than traditional 9.5mm 2.5-inch laptop hard drives - the Momentus Thin drive gives original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and system integrators significantly lower cost-per-gigabyte storage than solid state and 1.8-inch drives, enabling a new breed of entry-level thin laptops. http://www.physorg.com/news180118264.html Electronics Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:20:14 EST news180118264 (PhysOrg.com) -- The corona is the hot outer region of the sun's atmosphere. The corona is threaded by magnetic fields that loop and twist upwards from the sun's surface, driven by motions of its dense atmosphere. http://www.physorg.com/news179758481.html Space & Earth Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:59:52 EST news179758481 A team led by Yale University scientists has developed a way to rapidly manipulate and sort different cells in the blood using magnetizable liquids. The findings, which will be published the week of December 7 in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could dramatically improve the speed and sensitivity of tests used to detect cancer biomarkers, blood disorders, viruses and other diseases. http://www.physorg.com/news179423243.html Nanotechnology Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:48:29 EST news179423243 Toshiba Corporation today introduced a new line up of 1.8-inch HDDs with a maximum capacity of 320GB, the highest yet announced by the industry, targeted at thin and light mobile PCs and portable external hard disk drives. The new series delivers three models in 160GB, 250GB and 320GB capacities, and will start mass production from December. http://www.physorg.com/news176629394.html Electronics Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:43:41 EST news176629394 On the heels of the Microsoft Windows 7 introduction, Intel Corporation today announced the availability of the Intel Solid-State Drive (SSD) Toolbox, with Intel SSD Optimizer and firmware update, for its 34nm Intel X25-M Mainstream SATA SSDs. The latest tools are designed to help better manage and retain performance of Intel SSDs. http://www.physorg.com/news175856393.html Technology Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:01:51 EST news175856393 (PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to store and retrieve data is an important component of today's computers, as well as other modern electronic devices such as cell phones, video game consoles, and camcorders. Since their invention in the 1950s, magnetic-based hard disk drives (HDDs) have been the primary method of nonvolatile storage. However, researchers are currently developing several new and promising nonvolatile memory (NVM) technologies, but for one of them to replace HDDs within the next decade, it will be a challenge. http://www.physorg.com/news175505861.html Electronics Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:40:03 EST news175505861 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new device called the Gyrowheel could soon revolutionize the way children learn to ride bicycles, and they will be able to learn on their own, without training wheels, and in as little as half an hour. http://www.physorg.com/news175329334.html Technology Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:37:07 EST news175329334 Patients reporting new low-back pain are more likely to undergo surgery if treated in an area with a higher-than-average concentration of magnetic resonance imaging machines, according to research from the Stanford University School of Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news174753225.html Medicine & Health Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:10:01 EST news174753225 (PhysOrg.com) -- At the September '09 Emerging Tech Conference in Boston, GE announced it has been developing a 1TB DVD size disk that can be read by a modified Blu-ray player. http://www.physorg.com/news173550252.html Technology Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:24:35 EST news173550252 Investors willing to make early bets on the recovery of the PC sector have scored big with Seagate Technology and Western Digital Corp. -- two makers of hard-disk drives that have seen their market values more than triple so far this year. http://www.physorg.com/news173121836.html Technology Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:20:01 EST news173121836 Toshiba today announced a series of solid state drive (SSD) modules using the latest generation Toshiba 32nm MLC NAND flash, at Intel Developers Forum 2009. The Toshiba SG2 modules are offered in two types, one based on the new low-profile mini-SATA (mSATA) interface standard and the other a Half-Slim type, which uses a SATA connector. The drives are available in 30GB and 62GB modules. Volume production will start in October. http://www.physorg.com/news172773623.html Electronics Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:50:03 EST news172773623 Samsung Electronics today announced its new 640-Gigabyte (GB) 2.5-inch Spinpoint M7 internal hard disk drive. The new 640GB hard drive, now the top-density drive of the popular M7 family, has an areal density of 516-Gigabit per square inch for each 320GB platter, which is a 28 percent increase per platter over Samsung`s previous density-leading 500GB hard drive. Samsung`s new Spinpoint M7 model is designed for high-end mobile computing applications requiring greater shock resistance without a compromise in performance. http://www.physorg.com/news171737685.html Electronics Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:56:24 EST news171737685 (PhysOrg.com) -- As scientists attempt to learn more about how galaxies evolve, an open question has been whether collisions with our dwarf galactic neighbors will one day tear apart the disk of the Milky Way. http://www.physorg.com/news170938716.html Space & Earth Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:59:03 EST news170938716 Hitachi today announced that it is now shipping the world's first, two terabyte (2TB), 7200 RPM hard disk drive (HDD). The new 2TB Deskstar 7K2000 blends high performance and high capacity with low power and other eco-friendly features designed to enable Energy-Star rated computers and other high performance desktop systems. http://www.physorg.com/news169153267.html Electronics Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:00:01 EST news169153267 Let's jump ahead 50 years. Imagine your grandchildren are rummaging around in your attic, looking through old boxes and trunks. They discover laptops, hard drives wrapped in cloth, DVDs, and maybe even a real antique: A floppy disk. http://www.physorg.com/news168717176.html Technology Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:10:01 EST news168717176 (AP) -- For the last month and a half, a fierce bidding contest has lit up a staid but increasingly critical part of the computing world. On Wednesday, EMC Corp. walked away with the prize. http://www.physorg.com/news166290957.html Technology Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:56:11 EST news166290957 (PhysOrg.com) -- Using a worldwide combination of diverse telescopes, astronomers have discovered that a giant galaxy's bursts of very high energy gamma rays are coming from a region very close to the supermassive black hole at its core. The discovery provides important new information about the mysterious workings of the powerful "engines" in the centers of innumerable galaxies throughout the Universe. http://www.physorg.com/news165763462.html Space & Earth Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:24:43 EST news165763462 A forensics toolkit for the Xbox gaming console is described by US researchers in the latest issue of the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics. The toolkit could allow law enforcement agencies to scour the inbuilt hard disk of such devices and find illicit hidden materials easily. http://www.physorg.com/news160304799.html Electronics Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:07:07 EST news160304799 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 That sinking feeling when your hard disk starts screeching and you haven't backed up your holiday photos is a step closer to becoming a thing of the past thanks to research into a new kind of computer memory. http://www.physorg.com/news157976129.html Physics Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:16:32 EST news157976129 (PhysOrg.com) -- New results from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have made a major advance in explaining how a special class of black holes may shut off the high-speed jets they produce. These results suggest that these black holes have a mechanism for regulating the rate at which they grow. http://www.physorg.com/news157212704.html Space & Earth Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:12:29 EST news157212704 Samsung Electronics today announced its new EcoGreen F2EG hard disk that delivers a massive 1.5TB of capacity with 500GB per disk. With increased recording density and reduced number of disks, the EcoGreen F2 drive is more power efficient by supporting a capacity up to 1.5TB with 3 disks. http://www.physorg.com/news155843380.html Electronics Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:50:35 EST news155843380 A minimally invasive interventional radiology treatment -that safely and effectively uses oxygen/ozone to relieve the pain of herniated disks -will become standard in the United States in the next few years, predict researchers at the Society of Interventional Radiology's 34th Annual Scientific Meeting. In a related study, the interventional radiologists examined just how ozone relieves the pain associated with herniated disks. http://www.physorg.com/news155817234.html Medicine & Health Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:34:19 EST news155817234 Even though your grandparents` old photo albums are yellowed and grainy, they`re still there for you and your family to enjoy. But will your grandchildren be able to say the same of the digital photo albums you`re compiling today? Rapid advances in computer technology have left past hardware and software in the dust. If we`re creating documents no one will be able to access, has our Information Age created a digital dark age? http://www.physorg.com/news153683275.html Technology Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:48:40 EST news153683275 (PhysOrg.com) -- At the human scale, the tightly wrapped spinning columns of air in a tornado contain terrifying destructive power that ravages communities. At the nanoscale, however, closely coiled magnetic vortices hold the promise of a new generation of computers. http://www.physorg.com/news152810218.html Physics Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:17:51 EST news152810218 The bright pinwheels and broad star sweeps iconic of disk galaxies such as the Milky Way might all be the shrapnel from massive, violent collisions with other galaxies and galaxy-size chunks of dark matter, according to a multi-institutional project involving the University of Pittsburgh. Published in the Nov. 20 edition of The Astrophysical Journal, the findings challenge the longstanding theory that the bright extensions and rings surrounding galaxies are the remnants of smaller star clusters that struck a larger, primary galaxy then fragmented. http://www.physorg.com/news146496927.html Space & Earth Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:35:27 EST news146496927 (PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of scientists predict that our Galaxy, the Milky Way, contains a disk of ‘dark matter`. In a paper published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, astronomers Dr Justin Read, Professor George Lake and Oscar Agertz of the University of Zurich, and Dr Victor Debattista of the University of Central Lancashire use the results of a supercomputer simulation to deduce the presence of this disk. They explain how it could allow physicists to directly detect and identify the nature of dark matter for the first time. http://www.physorg.com/news140762748.html Physics Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:45:48 EST news140762748 Intel Corporation announced today it has begun shipping Intel X18-M and X25-M Mainstream SATA Solid-State Drives (SSDs) based on multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash technology for laptop and desktop computers. The new high-performing data storage devices give computer buyers a new level of system responsiveness in a lightweight, rugged, low-power package that can replace traditional hard disk drives. http://www.physorg.com/news140100055.html Electronics Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:40:55 EST news140100055 (PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, a team of international researchers has found a way to view the accretion disks surrounding black holes and verify that their true electromagnetic spectra match what astronomers have long predicted they would be. Their work will be published in the July 24 issue of the science journal Nature. http://www.physorg.com/news136040931.html Space & Earth Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:08:51 EST news136040931