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) -- Yahoo Inc. will lean more heavily on Facebook's popularity as it tries to give people more reasons to stay on its Web site. http://www.physorg.com/news178976075.html Technology Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:35:44 EST news178976075 (PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes friends can become enemies and enemies become friends, and it`s difficult to understand exactly how or why the changes took place. A new study shows that when the shifting of alliances and rivalries is interpreted using principles from social psychology, the overall behavior can be modeled as arising from an energy minimization process. The work is part of a growing line of research that uses tools from physics to analyze complex social systems. http://www.physorg.com/news178954961.html Physics Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:50:04 EST news178954961 (AP) -- A new study confirms what your 130 Facebook friends and scores of Twitter followers may have already told you: The Internet and mobile phones are not linked to social isolation. http://www.physorg.com/news176566373.html Other Sciences Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:40:01 EST news176566373 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new study published by The University of Western Ontario reveals that many older seniors (aged 85+) actively participate in activities that allow them to continue living in their homes. http://www.physorg.com/news172938508.html Other Sciences Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:50:03 EST news172938508 A new study of childhood obesity in the United States has found that some social factors, such as the presence of friends, may put overweight youths at greater risk of overeating. http://www.physorg.com/news168536392.html Medicine & Health Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:40:23 EST news168536392 (AP) -- I like to get advice from friends on all sorts of things, and love to give it even more. In the past few years, instant messaging, e-mail and Twitter have sped up the process, but there's still room for improvement. http://www.physorg.com/news166294301.html Technology Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:52:55 EST news166294301 Had a good chat with someone recently? Has a good friend just helped you to do up your home? Then you will be lucky if that person still does that in seven years time. Sociologist Gerald Mollenhorst investigated how the context in which we meet people influences our social network. One of his conclusions: you lose about half of your close network members every seven years. http://www.physorg.com/news162741216.html Other Sciences Thu, 28 May 2009 14:54:13 EST news162741216 YouTube unveiled a test version of a service that tells people which videos their friends are watching. http://www.physorg.com/news159778333.html Technology Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:52:34 EST news159778333 (AP) -- Socializr, the online invitations startup from Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams, now helps users manage their events from sites like Facebook, MySpace, Evite and Meetup. http://www.physorg.com/news159025148.html Technology Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:39:32 EST news159025148 It seems everyone is on Facebook these days: your co-workers, your best friend from third grade, your mom. Facebook usage has exploded in the past year, with the site claiming its fastest-growing demographic are adults ages 30 or older. Since abandoning its college-student-only model in 2006, the site has become the place for both longtime online citizens and relative Internet newcomers of all ages. http://www.physorg.com/news155398274.html Technology Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:11:48 EST news155398274 Marijuana use appears to have decreased among most European and North American adolescents between 2002 and 2006, and those who went out with friends on fewer evenings of the week were less likely to report using the drug, according to a report in the February issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news152819328.html Medicine & Health Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:49:00 EST news152819328 People who lose a job or who are in the midst a financial crisis often are reluctant to talk about their struggles and may isolate themselves from friends and family. http://www.physorg.com/news151941398.html Other Sciences Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:57:25 EST news151941398 For most teenagers, privacy is important. They want to be able to go in their rooms, shut the door and close the world out. It's their safe place, a haven for them and their friends. http://www.physorg.com/news151059596.html Technology Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:59:56 EST news151059596 If you're happy and you know it, thank your friends -and their friends. And while you're at it, their friends' friends. But if you're sad, hold the blame. Researchers from Harvard Medical School and the University of California, San Diego have found that "happiness" is not the result solely of a cloistered journey filled with individually tailored self-help techniques. Happiness is also a collective phenomenon that spreads through social networks like an emotional contagion. http://www.physorg.com/news147695986.html Medicine & Health Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:39:46 EST news147695986 (PhysOrg.com) -- When friends meet, hearts warm, according to the old proverb - and new research from The University of Nottingham backs this up. http://www.physorg.com/news144069258.html Medicine & Health Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:14:18 EST news144069258 A huge rise in the numbers of UK residents travelling to malaria endemic areas, combined with a failure to use prevention measures, has significantly increased cases of imported falciparum malaria in the UK over the past 20 years, according to a study published on BMJ.com. http://www.physorg.com/news134367171.html Medicine & Health Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:12:51 EST news134367171