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. Vertical greenhouses that grow organic fruit and vegetables smack in the middle of crowded cities where land is scarce may soon be a reality, a Swedish company developing the project said Friday. http://www.physorg.com/news163431280.html Space & Earth Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:35:17 EST news163431280 There's little doubt that coral reefs the world over face threats on many fronts: pollution, diseases, destructive fishing practices and warming oceans. But reefs appear to be more resistant to one potential menace - seaweed - than previously thought, according to new research by a team of marine scientists from the United States and Australia. http://www.physorg.com/news163071159.html Space & Earth Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:33:19 EST news163071159 (PhysOrg.com) -- Nurture could have an even greater effect than originally thought, according to a University of Manchester study that is set to shake up the ‘nature versus nurture` debate. http://www.physorg.com/news162747828.html Biology Thu, 28 May 2009 16:44:30 EST news162747828 (AP) -- U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged Beijing on Thursday to cooperate on climate change, calling a safe environment a basic human right. http://www.physorg.com/news162707689.html Space & Earth Thu, 28 May 2009 05:35:26 EST news162707689 (PhysOrg.com) -- Far from being geeky and exotic, virtual reality could be the key to a new range of innovative products. European researchers and industrialists have come together to build a world-leading community ready to exploit that promise. http://www.physorg.com/news162653042.html Technology Wed, 27 May 2009 14:24:46 EST news162653042 The thought of a car or truck that can drive itself is at once both exciting and frightening. Autonomous vehicle navigation, as the technology is known, may make life more convenient if it allows people to kick back and enjoy a good book or movie while their cars guide themselves through rush-hour traffic. But what happens if it starts to rain or if traffic suddenly picks up? If the technology is to work at all, it will have to be completely safe on all roads, under all speeds, and in all weather. Therein lies the challenge: if cars and trucks are to drive autonomously, they will need futuristic sensors and advanced computing capabilities to respond to ever-changing road conditions. http://www.physorg.com/news162573964.html Technology Tue, 26 May 2009 16:26:30 EST news162573964 A group of conservationists and scientists is due to set sail for an obscure corner of the Pacific Ocean in the coming months to explore a vast swirl of waste known as the "Plastic Vortex." http://www.physorg.com/news162454033.html Space & Earth Mon, 25 May 2009 07:07:34 EST news162454033 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's return to the moon will get a boost in June with the launch of two satellites that will return a wealth of data about Earth's nearest neighbor. On Thursday, the agency outlined the upcoming missions of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS. The spacecraft will launch together June 17 aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. http://www.physorg.com/news162219006.html Space & Earth Fri, 22 May 2009 13:51:45 EST news162219006 Online learning communities flourish best if individual learners have self-governance. That is the conclusion of a US study published in the International Journal of Web Based Communities. http://www.physorg.com/news162212031.html Other Sciences Fri, 22 May 2009 11:54:15 EST news162212031 Twenty-two years after the Chernobyl nuclear power station accident in the Ukraine - the worst in history - scientists are reporting insights into the mystery of how plants have managed to adapt and survive in the radioactive soil near Chernobyl. Their research is the first to probe how production of key proteins in plants changes in response to the radioactive environment, according to the report. It is scheduled for the June 5 issue of ACS` Journal of Proteome Research. http://www.physorg.com/news161456026.html Chemistry Wed, 13 May 2009 17:54:24 EST news161456026 The notion that highly engaged workers will continue to work tirelessly for organizations despite diminishing resources often isn't true, according to Clemson University psychology professor Thomas Britt. http://www.physorg.com/news161441103.html Other Sciences Wed, 13 May 2009 13:45:47 EST news161441103 Despite advances in computer graphics, few people would think virtual characters or objects are real. Yet placed in a virtual reality environment most people will interact with them as if they are really there. European researchers are finding out why. http://www.physorg.com/news161251636.html Technology Mon, 11 May 2009 09:09:15 EST news161251636 Light switches, TV remote controls and even house keys could become a thing of the past thanks to brain-computer interface (BCI) technology being developed in Europe that lets users perform everyday tasks with thoughts alone. http://www.physorg.com/news161248986.html Technology Mon, 11 May 2009 08:23:43 EST news161248986 Salmonella, what's gotten into you? Researchers have been asking themselves this question ever since Salmonella bacteria grown on board the space shuttle returned to Earth 3 to 7 times more virulent than Salmonella grown on the ground under otherwise identical conditions. Figuring out why could help safeguard astronauts from disease and lead to new treatments for food poisoning and other common ailments on Earth. http://www.physorg.com/news160931238.html Biology Thu, 07 May 2009 16:07:58 EST news160931238 Scientists studying submerged sinkholes in the Great Lakes off the coast of northern Michigan have stumbled onto something they never expected to find: life forms akin to those found in some of Earth's most extreme environments. http://www.physorg.com/news160645491.html Biology Mon, 04 May 2009 08:53:33 EST news160645491 A growing body of basic animal research and studies of abused and neglected children provide a strong basis of support for the hypothesis that individuals with particular genotypes are at greater risk for depression, anxiety disorders, and problems with the abuse of alcohol and other substances.  These gene-by-environment interactions are so powerful that some might assume that these genotypes identify people who are predestined to negative life outcomes. http://www.physorg.com/news160215721.html Medicine & Health Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:22:32 EST news160215721 Baroque classical music in the reading room can help improve radiologists work lives, potentially improving diagnostic efficiency and accuracy, according to a study performed by researchers at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, MD, Harbor Hospital in Baltimore, MD, and the University of Pennsylvania Health System in Philadelphia, PA. http://www.physorg.com/news159705377.html Medicine & Health Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:36:39 EST news159705377 Pollution experts at Teeside University, UK, are close to solving a problem which has led to over 100 tonnes of discharges from old iron stone mine workings pouring into the Noth Sea every year. http://www.physorg.com/news159699336.html Space & Earth Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:56:18 EST news159699336 (PhysOrg.com) -- UC Riverside biologists researching the behavior of field crickets have found for the first time that female crickets remember attractive males based on the latter`s song, and use this information when choosing mates. http://www.physorg.com/news159637133.html Biology Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:39:31 EST news159637133 Making choices is tough, especially in a competitive retail environment. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research sheds some light on the processes consumers use to make choices among multiple options. http://www.physorg.com/news159461929.html Other Sciences Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:59:14 EST news159461929 The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), as part of its Architecture Aware Compiler Environment Program, has awarded Rice University $16 million to develop a new set of tools that can improve the performance of virtually any application running on any microprocessor. http://www.physorg.com/news158321302.html Technology Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:09:00 EST news158321302 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have completed the first study of microbes that live within the plumbing of deep-sea mud volcanoes in the Gulf of Mexico, where conditions may resemble those in extraterrestrial environments and early Earth. The study, which was partially funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), was conducted in an area where clusters of seafloor vents spew mud, oil, brine and gases that support food chains independently of the Sun. http://www.physorg.com/news158259974.html Biology Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:07:59 EST news158259974 Dogs and small children who share similar social environments appear to understand human gestures in comparable ways, according to Gabriella Lakatos from Eötvös University in Budapest, Hungary, and her team. Looking at how dogs and young children respond to adult pointing actions, Lakatos shows that 3-year-olds rely on the direction of the index finger to locate a hidden object, whereas 2-year-olds and dogs respond instead to the protruding body part, even if the index finger is pointing in the opposite direction. These findings1 were just published online in Springer's journal Animal Cognition. http://www.physorg.com/news158227390.html Biology Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:03:57 EST news158227390 It is not surprising that as our economy continues its freefall, we are feeling increasingly more stressed and worried. Many of us are feeling extreme unease about the security of our jobs and being able to make our next mortgage payment. However, according to a new report in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, stress could make our financial troubles even worse. http://www.physorg.com/news157814244.html Medicine & Health Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:17:53 EST news157814244 (AP) -- More people have been arrested in recent years for sexually soliciting youths online, but the sharp increase comes from better enforcement, and the Internet remains a relatively safe social environment, researchers said in a new study. http://www.physorg.com/news157701648.html Technology Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:01:49 EST news157701648 Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have deciphered a key sequence of events governing whether the stem cells that produce red and white blood cells remain anchored to the bone marrow, or migrate into the circulatory system. http://www.physorg.com/news157201946.html Biology Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:13:03 EST news157201946 Scientists at the University of Liverpool have demonstrated how a single-celled organism, living freely in the environment, could be a source of Salmonella transmission to animals and humans. http://www.physorg.com/news157038671.html Biology Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:51:53 EST news157038671 International experts are warning that potentially lethal air pollution has boomed in fast-growing big cities in Asia and South America in recent decades. http://www.physorg.com/news157003027.html Space & Earth Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:57:38 EST news157003027 The Internet could be used as an early warning system for potential ecological disasters, according to researchers from Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University and the University of East Anglia. http://www.physorg.com/news156762185.html Space & Earth Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:03:39 EST news156762185 (PhysOrg.com) -- Anthropogenic, or human generated, sounds have the potential to significantly affect the lives of aquatic animals - from the individual animal`s well-being, right through to its reproduction, migration and even survival of the species. http://www.physorg.com/news156099748.html Biology Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:03:37 EST news156099748