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) -- New cars have been tuning themselves for the better part of two decades now, so it should feel less impressive that Gibson has built a guitar that can smoothly do the same. http://www.physorg.com/news178391604.html Electronics Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:13:43 EST news178391604 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's remotely piloted Predator B aircraft, named Ikhana, recently conducted post-burn assessments of two Southern California wildfire sites, the Piute Fire in Kern County and the Station Fire in the Angeles National Forest. Ikhana, an unmanned aircraft equipped with an infrared imaging sensor, completed a seven-hour imaging flight on Nov. 19, 2009 from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. http://www.physorg.com/news178384574.html Space & Earth Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:17:30 EST news178384574 Australia has issued "catastrophic" alerts after record-breaking temperatures and wild lightning storms sparked more than 100 fires across the country, officials said Saturday. http://www.physorg.com/news178025073.html Space & Earth Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:25:26 EST news178025073 (PhysOrg.com) -- UNC emergency physician Abhi Mehrotra, M.D., explains how you can avoid the most common injuries that land people in a hospital emergency department during the four-day Thanksgiving holiday period. http://www.physorg.com/news177781151.html Medicine & Health Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:50:01 EST news177781151 Poor Texas. First it was killer bees, then fire ants. Now, it's the Rasberry ants. http://www.physorg.com/news177341639.html Biology Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:34:36 EST news177341639 (PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes, when harvest conditions are less than ideal, silage with lower-than-optimum moisture levels is put into a silo, potentially leading to excessive heating and a spontaneous-combustion fire. http://www.physorg.com/news175879200.html Other Sciences Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:50:03 EST news175879200 A fire aboard a Navy ship can quickly become a deadly cauldron. The grim reminders of this would be the deadly fires that took place aboard the USS Forrestal in 1967 or the USS Enterprise in 1969. http://www.physorg.com/news175527481.html Other Sciences Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:00:01 EST news175527481 One small step for mankind is now a leap for averting natural and man-made disasters on earth. http://www.physorg.com/news175441355.html Space & Earth Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:43:13 EST news175441355 While operating room fires can occur in a variety of clinical settings, it is the use of lasers and electrosurgical devices that are most likely to cause them. Those are the findings in new research presented at the 2009 American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) Annual Meeting & OTO EXPO, in San Diego, CA. http://www.physorg.com/news174049757.html Medicine & Health Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:10:08 EST news174049757 A team from the National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology (INIA) has developed a new method for identifying the flammability of plant species by using a device that measures how construction materials react to fire. The technique, which is being presented this week at the Fifth Spanish Forestry Congress, can be used to improve fire risk maps. http://www.physorg.com/news173022836.html Other Sciences Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:54:19 EST news173022836 Women in Central Mexico who used a vented stove instead of the traditional indoor open fire, experienced improved respiratory health on par with a pack-a-day smoker kicking the habit, according to a recent study. http://www.physorg.com/news172909071.html Medicine & Health Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:40:01 EST news172909071 As the flames of the raging brush fire dubbed the Station Fire threatened the northern edge of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Saturday, Aug. 29, the managers of NASA's Deep Space Network prepared for the worst. http://www.physorg.com/news171820880.html Space & Earth Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:03:10 EST news171820880 A powerful fish-killing toxin could have cancer-killing properties as well, according to collaborative research led by Agricultural Research Service microbiologist Paul V. Zimba and chemist Peter Moeller of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The toxin, called euglenophycin, has a molecular structure similar to that of solenopsin, an alkaloid from fire ant venom known to inhibit tumor development. http://www.physorg.com/news171732651.html Chemistry Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:30:01 EST news171732651 (PhysOrg.com) -- Chris and Lindsey Deems know firsthand how dangerous beach fire pits can be to children. Their daughter Delaney, 2, suffered second- and third-degree burns to her feet when she stepped into a sand-covered fire pit July 18 at Doheny State Beach in Dana Point. http://www.physorg.com/news169148166.html Medicine & Health Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:00:02 EST news169148166 (AP) -- Sam the koala, who gained worldwide fame and sympathy when she was rescued during Australia's devastating wildfires this year, was euthanized Thursday after a veterinarian found the cysts that threatened her life were inoperable. http://www.physorg.com/news168765048.html Biology Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:20:02 EST news168765048 An international research team has developed a mathematical and cartographical model that make it possible to view how Mediterranean landscapes evolve in the aftermath of forest fires. In order to carry out this research study, published recently in the journal Environmental Modelling & Software, the authors studied a Special Protection Area for Birds to the south west of Madrid. http://www.physorg.com/news168157098.html Space & Earth Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:19:27 EST news168157098 In the past, sirens howled to warn the population against floods, large fires or chemical accidents. Today, however, there is no extensive warning system in Germany, as most sirens were dismantled after the Cold War. Researchers of the Fraunhofer Institute for Technological Trend Analysis INT in Euskirchen want the population to be warned by car horns in the future. http://www.physorg.com/news167318293.html Technology Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:19:40 EST news167318293 Firefighting, arguably one of the world's most dangerous jobs, is about to get a lot safer thanks to a revolutionary technique developed in Sweden. http://www.physorg.com/news167210139.html Technology Sun, 19 Jul 2009 08:17:32 EST news167210139 A joint experiment by researchers at the University of Haifa and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. succeeded in solving the riddle: Could cannon balls from the early 19th century sink warships? http://www.physorg.com/news166874860.html Other Sciences Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:30:04 EST news166874860 Widely sought efforts to reduce fuels that increase catastrophic fire in Pacific Northwest forests will be counterproductive to another important societal goal of sequestering carbon to help offset global warming, forestry researchers at Oregon State University conclude in a new report. http://www.physorg.com/news166273305.html Space & Earth Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:40:01 EST news166273305 (PhysOrg.com) -- This year's unusually wet spring and early summer has led many farmers to store hay that's wetter than normal, increasing the danger of barn fires, according to an expert in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences. http://www.physorg.com/news166206830.html Space & Earth Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:35:14 EST news166206830 The recent increase in area burned by wildfires in the Western United States is a product not of higher temperatures or longer fire seasons alone, but a complex relationship between climate and fuels that varies among different ecosystems, according to a study conducted by U.S. Forest Service and university scientists. The study is the most detailed examination of wildfire in the United States to date and appears in the current issue of the journal Ecological Applications. http://www.physorg.com/news165228179.html Space & Earth Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:43:32 EST news165228179 A wildfire rages across southern California wildlands towards residential communities, endangering residents and firefighters and sending property up in smoke. This is an increasingly common story, occurring several times a summer. To better understand these Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fires and how best to prevent or fight them, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have issued an in-depth study on fire behavior and defensive actions taken in a community during a such a fire. http://www.physorg.com/news164454924.html Space & Earth Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:55:50 EST news164454924 Only 11 percent of wildfire mitigation efforts undertaken as a result of a long-term federal fuels-reduction program to cut down catastrophic wildfire risk to communities have been undertaken near people's homes or offices in the past five years, says a new study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder. http://www.physorg.com/news163700419.html Space & Earth Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:21:42 EST news163700419 Hewlett-Packard (HP) is recalling some 70,000 batteries for notebook computers because of a fire hazard, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said on Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news161540065.html Electronics Thu, 14 May 2009 17:14:46 EST news161540065 (PhysOrg.com) -- Rising temperatures may lead to more tinder-dry vegetation, but that doesn't mean there will be a higher risk for wildfires in a particular area. http://www.physorg.com/news160405014.html Biology Fri, 01 May 2009 13:57:45 EST news160405014 In the last decade, Asian farmers have cleared tens of thousands of square miles of forests to accommodate the world's growing demand for palm oil, an increasingly popular food ingredient. Ancient peatlands have been drained and lush tropical forests have been cut down. As a result, the landscape of equatorial Asia now lies vulnerable to fires, which are growing more frequent and having a serious impact on the air as well as the land. http://www.physorg.com/news160323317.html Space & Earth Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:15:57 EST news160323317 Scientists in Washington State are reporting the first discovery of potent mutagenic substances in smoke from forest fires that often sweep through huge stands of Ponderosa pine in the western United States and Canada. http://www.physorg.com/news160233080.html Space & Earth Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:11:38 EST news160233080 Fire's potent and pervasive effects on ecosystems and on many Earth processes, including climate change, have been underestimated, according to a new report. http://www.physorg.com/news159715079.html Space & Earth Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:18:30 EST news159715079 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in Japan are reporting development of a new type of ice that may provide a more efficient, environmentally-friendly method for putting out fires, including out-of control blazes that destroy homes and forests. Their study appears in the current issue of ACS` Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. http://www.physorg.com/news159701166.html Chemistry Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:26:25 EST news159701166