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) -- Get lost in the woods and a cell phone in your pocket can help camping buddies find you. Drive into a ditch and GPS in your car lets emergency crews pinpoint the crash site. But when a transcontinental flight is above the middle of the ocean, no one on the ground can see exactly where it is - in the air, or worse, in the water. http://www.physorg.com/news163313926.html Technology Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:14:38 EST news163313926 New research shows some bees brace themselves against wind and turbulence by extending their sturdy hind legs while flying. But this approach comes at a steep cost, increasing aerodynamic drag and the power required for flight by roughly 30 percent, and cutting into the bees' flight performance. http://www.physorg.com/news163161417.html Biology Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:37:43 EST news163161417 (PhysOrg.com) -- From Leonardo da Vinci to the Greek tragedy of Icarus, birds have emboldened scientific minds to master flight. Now, Stanford researchers can be added to the list of ornithologically inspired innovators. http://www.physorg.com/news163092004.html Technology Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:20:46 EST news163092004 (PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have developed a small robotic drone capable of helping save lives in emergency situations or preventing terrorist attacks in urban areas. http://www.physorg.com/news162819811.html Technology Fri, 29 May 2009 12:44:04 EST news162819811 (AP) -- Venezuela's health ministry is reporting the country's first swine flu case: a 22-year-old man who arrived on a flight from Panama earlier this week. http://www.physorg.com/news162794923.html Medicine & Health Fri, 29 May 2009 05:49:11 EST news162794923 Australian and US scientists have successfully tested hypersonic aircraft technology which could revolutionise international flight, officials said. http://www.physorg.com/news162184185.html Technology Fri, 22 May 2009 04:10:19 EST news162184185 (AP) -- Atlantis' astronauts checked their ship's flight systems and packed up Thursday in hopes of an on-time end to their triumphant Hubble Space Telescope repair mission, although the weather prospects were dismal. http://www.physorg.com/news162129133.html Space & Earth Thu, 21 May 2009 12:52:39 EST news162129133 (AP) -- Atlantis' astronauts grabbed the Hubble Space Telescope on Wednesday, then quickly set their sights on the difficult, dangerous and unprecedented spacewalking repairs they will attempt over the next five days. http://www.physorg.com/news161441807.html Space & Earth Wed, 13 May 2009 13:57:14 EST news161441807 (AP) -- The Atlantis astronauts uncovered a 21-inch stretch of nicks on their space shuttle Tuesday, but NASA said the damage did not appear to be serious. http://www.physorg.com/news161364106.html Space & Earth Tue, 12 May 2009 16:22:42 EST news161364106 (AP) -- In what's expected to be the last time ever, both of NASA's shuttle launch pads are occupied. Atlantis is on one, primed for a flight this coming week to the Hubble Space Telescope. Endeavour sits on the other a mile away for a mission no one wants. http://www.physorg.com/news161142179.html Space & Earth Sun, 10 May 2009 02:43:31 EST news161142179 Astronauts set to blast off for the International Space Station said Thursday that constructing a new dinner table would be a top priority as its permanent crew expands to six. http://www.physorg.com/news160924419.html Space & Earth Thu, 07 May 2009 14:14:26 EST news160924419 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA managers completed a review Thursday of space shuttle Atlantis' readiness for flight and selected an official launch date for the STS-125 mission to upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope. Commander Scott Altman and his six crewmates are scheduled to lift off at 2:01 p.m. EDT, May 11, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. http://www.physorg.com/news160327349.html Space & Earth Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:23:16 EST news160327349 (PhysOrg.com) -- When a jet is flying faster than the speed of sound, one small mistake can tear it apart. And when the jet is so experimental that it must fly unmanned, only a computer control system can pilot it. http://www.physorg.com/news160234081.html Technology Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:28:56 EST news160234081 In London, motorists pay a fee to drive into certain parts of the city during peak traffic hours, and the idea has been considered for implementation in New York as well. Now Dr. Itai Ater, an economist from Tel Aviv University's Faculty of Management, is suggesting that introducing "congestion pricing" at airports could save travellers time and airlines money. http://www.physorg.com/news159630364.html Other Sciences Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:46:32 EST news159630364 The Navy's newest flight deck cleaning technology cuts grime with the power of a Zamboni and the environmental safety of clean running water. http://www.physorg.com/news159630256.html Technology Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:45:05 EST news159630256 (AP) -- Wanted: Computer hackers. Federal authorities aren't looking to prosecute them, but to pay them to secure the nation's networks. http://www.physorg.com/news159342320.html Technology Sun, 19 Apr 2009 06:46:07 EST news159342320 A Russian and US space crew denied on Friday that new rules forbid them from sharing toilets and food in orbit, hailing their work as the "best partnership" in human history. http://www.physorg.com/news158586817.html Space & Earth Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:54:06 EST news158586817 (PhysOrg.com) -- A Manchester scientist has put forward a controversial new way of tackling a typically Darwinian chicken and egg question - the evolution of flapping flight in birds. http://www.physorg.com/news158255381.html Biology Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:50:14 EST news158255381 The hatch slammed shut Tuesday behind six volunteers from Europe and Russia who will spend three months isolated in a capsule in Moscow to simulate conditions for a manned mission to Mars. http://www.physorg.com/news157702743.html Space & Earth Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:19:49 EST news157702743 Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Michael Barratt of the 19th International Space Station crew docked their Soyuz TMA-14 to the International Space Station at 9:05 a.m. EDT Saturday. http://www.physorg.com/news157640632.html Space & Earth Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:04:35 EST news157640632 Six volunteers from Europe and Russia will on Tuesday allow themselves to be locked up in a capsule in Moscow for over three months to simulate the conditions for an eventual manned mission to Mars. http://www.physorg.com/news157533779.html Space & Earth Sun, 29 Mar 2009 08:23:49 EST news157533779 (PhysOrg.com) -- After liftoff 17 March, ESA's GOCE spacecraft is performing very well, having achieved an extremely accurate injection altitude of 283.5 km, just 1.5 km lower than planned. The Mission Control Team is now working round-the-clock shifts to implement a series of critical check-out procedures. http://www.physorg.com/news156697875.html Space & Earth Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:12:13 EST news156697875 (PhysOrg.com) -- The final pieces of the Ares I-X flight test rocket left the Alliant Tech Systems manufacturing facility in Promontory, Utah, Thursday and began a 2,917-mile journey to its launch site at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. http://www.physorg.com/news156179269.html Space & Earth Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:08:59 EST news156179269 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new map combining nearly three months of data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is giving astronomers an unprecedented look at the high-energy cosmos. To Fermi's eyes, the universe is ablaze with gamma rays from sources ranging from within the solar system to galaxies billions of light-years away. http://www.physorg.com/news155994698.html Space & Earth Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:52:37 EST news155994698 American software tycoon Charles Simonyi on Thursday shrugged off a 10 million dollar price hike by Russia for his next space flight, saying space tourism was the way of the future. http://www.physorg.com/news155481353.html Space & Earth Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:16:15 EST news155481353 (PhysOrg.com) -- The European Society of Cardiology, (ESC) the preeminent authority on cardiovascular health re-affirms its warning to passengers on long-haul plane trips of the risk of deep venous thrombosis or VTE. The warning from ESC comes on the heels of a recent review by The Lancet which suggests that the risk of VTE increases when flight duration exceeds four hours. http://www.physorg.com/news154872228.html Medicine & Health Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:04:33 EST news154872228 If an airline flight is delayed, Asian consumers might take it in stride. But those same passengers might be unhappy if the flight attendants are rude or inattentive. And Western consumers might react differently, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. http://www.physorg.com/news154626446.html Other Sciences Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:48:03 EST news154626446 An early warning system, more than a decade in development, successfully predicted the 2006-2007 outbreak of the deadly Rift Valley fever in northeast Africa, according to a new study led by NASA scientists. http://www.physorg.com/news154018681.html Other Sciences Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:59:12 EST news154018681 If you're looking for bargain air travel, a new study finds that you should look at more than just the ticket price. Instead, a researcher at North Carolina State University who co-authored the study says that consumers need to consider the quality of the flights being offered in order to get the best "price efficiency." http://www.physorg.com/news154007899.html Other Sciences Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:59:07 EST news154007899 A York University researcher has tracked the migration of songbirds by outfitting them with tiny geolocator backpacks - a world first - revealing that scientists have underestimated their flight performance dramatically. http://www.physorg.com/news153670771.html Biology Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:20:10 EST news153670771