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) -- Personal computer maker Lenovo Group said Friday it is joining the race to develop products that link phones and PCs by buying back a mobile phone business that it sold last year. http://www.physorg.com/news178530583.html Technology Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:00:01 EST news178530583 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) said Tuesday China's top chip maker will pay it 200 million US dollars cash after they settled a long-running dispute over alleged theft of trade secrets. http://www.physorg.com/news177083799.html Technology Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:30:01 EST news177083799 (PhysOrg.com) -- Sweden and Denmark lead the world in social progress, Afghanistan is at the bottom of the list and the United States ranks 35th among 162 nations, tied with Ireland, Latvia and Hong Kong. Those are among the rankings in the latest Index of Social Progress. http://www.physorg.com/news175806203.html Other Sciences Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:20:01 EST news175806203 Hong Kong air pollution has equalled a record high registered in 2000, triggering a warning for people with heart or respiratory illnesses, according to the Environmental Protection Department. http://www.physorg.com/news175584513.html Space & Earth Sat, 24 Oct 2009 07:20:02 EST news175584513 China Mobile, the nation's largest mobile phone operator, on Thursday reported a 1.5 percent rise in half-year net profit, as it was hit by strong competition and a slow economy. http://www.physorg.com/news169964048.html Technology Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:50:02 EST news169964048 Hong Kong health authorities have reported the first local case of Tamiflu-resistant swine flu in the southern Chinese territory. http://www.physorg.com/news169567877.html Medicine & Health Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:12:09 EST news169567877 (AP) -- Bird flu kills more than 60 percent of its human victims, but doesn't easily pass from person to person. Swine flu can be spread with a sneeze or handshake, but kills only a small fraction of the people it infects. http://www.physorg.com/news160983779.html Medicine & Health Fri, 08 May 2009 06:43:33 EST news160983779 The Hong Kong flu pandemic was responsible for more than 700,000 deaths worldwide in the late 1960s, with major disease outbreaks in Europe in the winter of 1969-1970. A number of studies have been conducted to determine if prenatal exposure to the influenza virus may result in mental disorders that affect a small portion of the population, but no studies have explored the possible effects of prenatal exposure on the mean intelligence in the general population. A new study found that early prenatal exposure to the Hong Kong flu may have interfered with fetal cerebral development and caused reduced intelligence in adulthood. The study is published in Annals of Neurology. http://www.physorg.com/news159024625.html Medicine & Health Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:31:00 EST news159024625 (PhysOrg.com) -- "Many groups have been working devices that make objects invisible," Che Ting Chan tells PhysOrg.com. `Most of these devices, however, encompass the object to be cloaked.` Chan, a scientist at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, believes that it is possible to create a cloaking device that would be able to render an object invisible without encompassing it. http://www.physorg.com/news156162633.html Physics Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:31:29 EST news156162633 Hong Kong authorities said Friday that a dead chicken found in the southern Chinese territory had tested positive for the deadly H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus. http://www.physorg.com/news155563386.html Medicine & Health Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:04:58 EST news155563386