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. Q. We will be sailing in the Greek Islands on a 32-foot boat in May, and I am wondering how to properly charge our various electronic gadgets -- an e-book reader, camera and phone -- so I don't wreck any of them. What should I ask the boat charter company about the power on board? http://www.physorg.com/news159646698.html Technology Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:18:37 EST news159646698 (AP) -- Addicted to that GPS navigation system? On Connecticut roads, that might make you a lawbreaker. http://www.physorg.com/news159344040.html Technology Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:14:32 EST news159344040 Scientists are reporting the strongest evidence to date that neurodegenerative diseases target and progress along distinct neural networks that normally support healthy brain function. The discovery could lead to earlier diagnoses, novel treatment-monitoring strategies, and, possibly, recognition of a common disease process among all forms of neurodegeneration. http://www.physorg.com/news159021506.html Medicine & Health Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:38:55 EST news159021506 (PhysOrg.com) -- Studying satellite radar data from ESA's Envisat and the Italian Space Agency's COSMO-SkyMed, scientists have begun analysing the movement of Earth during and after the 6.3 earthquake that shook the medieval town of L'Aquila in central Italy on 6 April 2009. http://www.physorg.com/news159015099.html Space & Earth Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:52:41 EST news159015099 Emotions linked to our moral sense awaken slowly in the mind, according to a new study from a neuroscience group led by corresponding author Antonio Damasio, director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California. http://www.physorg.com/news158864256.html Medicine & Health Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:58:02 EST news158864256 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from the University of Toronto and the University of British Columbia have helped unveil the birthplaces of ancient stars using a two-tonne telescope carried by a balloon the size of a 33-storey building. http://www.physorg.com/news158416076.html Space & Earth Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:28:31 EST news158416076 (PhysOrg.com) -- An NJIT electrical engineer has cracked the code that will enable researchers around the world to detect tampering with electronic images. http://www.physorg.com/news157818404.html Technology Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:27:16 EST news157818404 (PhysOrg.com) -- Looking for images on the internet can be a frustrating business. Whether you want the perfect sunset over the sea or the London skyline by night, youre dependent on people to describe the images on their web pages. Now Imense Ltd, a high-tech Cambridge start-up, has announced new investment to help them become the Google of image searching, using their revolutionary technology. http://www.physorg.com/news157738827.html Technology Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:21:57 EST news157738827 Duke University chemists are using modified magnetic resonance imaging to see molecular changes inside people's bodies that could signal health problems such as cancer. http://www.physorg.com/news157297184.html Chemistry Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:40:18 EST news157297184 In a study by Miall, Gowen and Tchalenko published by Elsevier, in the March issue of Cortex, a brain scanner was used to record the brain's activity in each stage of the process of drawing faces. The researchers found that the captured visual information is stored as a series of locations or action plans to reach those locations. It is as if the brain remembers key locations and then "joins the dots" with a straight or curved line to achieve the desired image on the page. http://www.physorg.com/news156713625.html Medicine & Health Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:34:21 EST news156713625 Researchers announced today that a high-density genome wide analysis of participants in the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI; www.adni-info.org) is more than 95% complete and that data will be shared with scientists around the world for further analysis. http://www.physorg.com/news156439115.html Medicine & Health Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:19:26 EST news156439115 (PhysOrg.com) -- Humans excel at recognizing faces, but how we do this has been an abiding mystery in neuroscience and psychology. In an effort to explain our success in this area, researchers are taking a closer look at how and why we fail. http://www.physorg.com/news156173715.html Medicine & Health Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:38:39 EST news156173715 Researchers in Japan have turned to mathematics to build a computerized 3D model of the female trunk that could help lingerie and other clothes designers make more sensuous, comfortable, and better fitting product ranges. http://www.physorg.com/news156096749.html Technology Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:13:00 EST news156096749 (PhysOrg.com) -- Unlike today`s biggest and most realistic LCD and plasma TVs, 3D TV screens can project images that seem to float in mid-air beyond the screen. That means, for instance, that viewers could watch basketball players dribble in front of, next to, or behind the TV screen as they go for a lay-up. http://www.physorg.com/news156072878.html Physics Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:35:32 EST news156072878 Getty Images and Yahoo! on Wednesday announced a deal which the digital media company will distribute pictures shared at Yahoo!'s Flickr website. http://www.physorg.com/news156014599.html Technology Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:24:10 EST news156014599 (PhysOrg.com) -- Using satellite radar data, NASA-funded scientists, including UC Riverside`s Gareth Funning, have observed for the first time the healing of subtle, natural surface scars from an earthquake in Iran that occurred on a `buried` fault extending several miles below the surface -a fault whose fractures are not easily observed at Earth`s surface. http://www.physorg.com/news155489690.html Space & Earth Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:36:00 EST news155489690 Flickr on Monday began letting users of its free online photo-sharing service upload snippets of video to the website in a budding challenge to Google-owned YouTube. http://www.physorg.com/news155239836.html Technology Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:11:03 EST news155239836 The detailed structure of a protective 'jacket' that surrounds cells of the Clostridium difficile superbug, and which helps the dangerous pathogen stick to human host cells and tissues, is revealed in part in the 1 March issue of Molecular Microbiology. http://www.physorg.com/news154960637.html Biology Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:38:08 EST news154960637 (PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Vanderbilt scientists have invented the world's smallest version of the periscope and are using it to look at cells and other micro-organisms from several sides at once. http://www.physorg.com/news154791239.html Biology Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:34:49 EST news154791239 Do sexy images sell products? It depends, says a new study in Journal of Consumer Research. If marketers are determined to use sex in advertising, there may be ways to do it that can attract customers of both sexes. http://www.physorg.com/news154628548.html Other Sciences Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:22:55 EST news154628548 (PhysOrg.com) -- University of Manchester scientists are using laser imaging to investigate how fat - or fit - T. rex and his fellow dinosaurs were.Karl Bates and his colleagues in the palaeontology and biomechanics research group have reconstructed the bodies of five dinosaurs, two T. rex (Stan at the Manchester Museum and the Museum of the Rockies cast MOR555), an Acrocanthosaurus atokensis, a Strutiomimum sedens and an Edmontosaurus annectens. http://www.physorg.com/news154282227.html Other Sciences Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:11:32 EST news154282227 (PhysOrg.com) -- Pushing the envelope of Albert Einstein's "spooky action at a distance," known as entanglement, researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) of the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland have demonstrated a "quantum buffer," a technique that could be used to control the data flow inside a quantum computer. Quantum computers could potentially speed up or expand present capabilities in decrypting data, searching large databases, and other tasks. The new research is published in the Feb. 12 issue of the journal Nature. http://www.physorg.com/news153681740.html Physics Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:22:40 EST news153681740 A groundbreaking study has revealed in great detail how enzymes in the cell cooperate to make fat. These enzymes are integrated into a single molecular complex known as fatty acid synthase. This complex is regarded as a potential target for developing new anti-obesity and anti-cancer drugs. http://www.physorg.com/news153600180.html Biology Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:52:16 EST news153600180 (PhysOrg.com) -- The images, produced by scientists at Durham University's Institute for Computational Cosmology, show the "Cosmic Dawn" - the formation of the first big galaxies in the Universe. http://www.physorg.com/news153549252.html Space & Earth Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:34:50 EST news153549252 (PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have made an unexpected find using a polarimeter (an instrument used to measure the wave properties of light) funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), that has the potential to affect future climate models. http://www.physorg.com/news153507391.html Space & Earth Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:56:59 EST news153507391 (PhysOrg.com) -- Saturday, Feb. 7, marked the 10th anniversary of the launch of NASA's well-traveled Stardust spacecraft. http://www.physorg.com/news153417966.html Space & Earth Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:10:24 EST news153417966 (PhysOrg.com) -- A prototype "brain helmet" that provides real-time images of major blood vessels may enable emergency personnel to perform quick scans of potential stroke victims' brains, according to a team of Duke University bioengineers who developed the device. http://www.physorg.com/news153417596.html Medicine & Health Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:00:40 EST news153417596 Q. As a present for a wedding anniversary, my children took many of our slides and put together a great VHS tape for us. Unfortunately, in the process one of the important slides was misplaced. http://www.physorg.com/news152981439.html Technology Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:51:30 EST news152981439 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA is giving everyone the opportunity to use the world's most celebrated telescope to explore the heavens and boldly look where the Hubble Space Telescope has never looked before. http://www.physorg.com/news152379695.html Space & Earth Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:42:30 EST news152379695 (PhysOrg.com) -- After five groundbreaking years exploring the Red Planet, the communications engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory pretty much know what they are getting when another downlink from Spirit or Opportunity arrives. They know that with a typical transmission comes about 10 megabits of engineering data, another 4 megabits of science data, and around 26 megabits of images. They also realize that after the information is amassed and analyzed by the rovers' science teams that the most unique, scientifically exciting of that compiled data will be released via peer-reviewed papers, articles, science briefings and press releases. http://www.physorg.com/news151259758.html Space & Earth Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:35:58 EST news151259758