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. As the voyagers of the Starship Enterprise boldly went to explore new worlds week after week on Star Trek, they used a host of futuristic technologies - including tricorders, holodecks, teleportation systems and warp drives - that may have seemed almost beyond possibility to many of the shows` (and movies`) legion of devoted viewers. But, say many scientists interviewed on a new program airing on public television, real science and technology is starting to catch up to - and sometimes even surpass - some parts of that future. http://www.physorg.com/news179761611.html Other Sciences Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:10:08 EST news179761611 VISTA is the latest telescope to be added to ESO's Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. It is housed on the peak adjacent to the one hosting the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) and shares the same exceptional observing conditions. VISTA's main mirror is 4.1 metres across and is the most highly curved mirror of this size and quality ever made -- its deviations from a perfect surface are less than a few thousandths of the thickness of a human hair -- and its construction and polishing presented formidable challenges. http://www.physorg.com/news179739402.html Space & Earth Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:10:02 EST news179739402 (PhysOrg.com) -- This composite image of data from three different telescopes shows an ongoing collision between two galaxies, NGC 6872 and IC 4970. http://www.physorg.com/news179682939.html Space & Earth Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:56:28 EST news179682939 The creative side of information technology went on display in London this week, in an arresting new interactive show including glowing reeds and a blinking mechanical eye. http://www.physorg.com/news179589001.html Technology Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:20:05 EST news179589001 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or Wise, is chilled out, sporting a sunshade and getting ready to roll. NASA's newest spacecraft is scheduled to roll to the pad on Friday, Nov. 20, its last stop before launching into space to survey the entire sky in infrared light. http://www.physorg.com/news177698029.html Space & Earth Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:20:01 EST news177698029 (PhysOrg.com) -- The most distant object ever discovered is described in this week's edition of the science journal Nature. Two international teams of astronomers report their observations of a gamma-ray burst from a star that died when the Universe was 640 million years old, or less than 5 percent of its present age. http://www.physorg.com/news175969717.html Space & Earth Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:30:09 EST news175969717 At the European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference (Hamburg, Germany), IMEC presents a mechanically-stacked GaAs/Ge multijunction solar cell. This is the first promising demonstrator of IMEC`s novel technology to produce mechanically stacked, high-efficiency multijunction solar cells, aiming at efficiencies above 40%. http://www.physorg.com/news172821370.html Technology Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:50:01 EST news172821370 Promising photonic devices, and theorists attempt to determine whether particle physics and string theory can be reconciled. http://www.physorg.com/news172732219.html Physics Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:10:02 EST news172732219 Hitachi, Ltd. today announced the development of a 3mm thick thin-type finger vein authentication module. Finger vein authentication is a biometric identification technology which employs near infrared light to observe finger vein patterns. http://www.physorg.com/news171037731.html Electronics Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:30:02 EST news171037731 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has imaged a wild creature of the dark -- a coiled galaxy with an eye-like object at its center. http://www.physorg.com/news167583105.html Space & Earth Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:40:01 EST news167583105 NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is about to use its last drop of the coolant that has chilled it for the past five-and-a-half years. On about May 12, give or take a week or so, the observatory is predicted to run out of the liquid helium that has run through its veins, keeping its infrared detectors at frosty operating temperatures of just a few degrees above the coldest temperature possible, called absolute zero. http://www.physorg.com/news160762028.html Space & Earth Tue, 05 May 2009 17:07:31 EST news160762028 How long will it take to develop Star Trek-like medical technologies? The gap between science fiction and reality is closing faster than many people may think. http://www.physorg.com/news160229865.html Medicine & Health Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:18:09 EST news160229865 Scientists have shed new light -- literally -- on a possible way to starve cancer tumors or prevent side effects from a wide range of drugs. http://www.physorg.com/news157655203.html Chemistry Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:07:38 EST news157655203 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new metal nanostructure developed by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has already shown promise in cancer therapy studies and could be used for chemical and biological sensors and other applications as well. http://www.physorg.com/news156950496.html Nanotechnology Sun, 22 Mar 2009 14:22:30 EST news156950496 Three members of the faculty at Stevens Institute of Technology recently collaborated on a paper focusing on free-space optical communication, which appears in the latest issue of Optics Express. http://www.physorg.com/news156522480.html Physics Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:28:32 EST news156522480 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope offers a rare view of an imminent collision between the cores of two merging galaxies, each powered by a black hole with millions of times the mass of the sun. http://www.physorg.com/news156440810.html Space & Earth Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:47:43 EST news156440810 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have already known that carbon nanotube thin films have mechanical and conductive advantages that could make them useful as electrodes in solar cells, solid state lighting, and electronic displays. However, studies so far have focused on how well nanotube films transmit light in the visible range, but have not explored the films` infrared properties. http://www.physorg.com/news155993510.html Nanotechnology Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:32:47 EST news155993510 (PhysOrg.com) -- ESA`s Venus Express spacecraft has observed an eerie glow in the night-time atmosphere of Venus. This infrared light comes from nitric oxide and is showing scientists that the atmosphere of Earth`s nearest neighbour is a temperamental place of high winds and turbulence. http://www.physorg.com/news154706058.html Space & Earth Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:54:52 EST news154706058 (PhysOrg.com) -- `People are interested in the mid-infrared,` Dan Wasserman tells PhysOrg.com. Infrared light has a wavelength longer than visible light, and many molecules have numerous very strong optical resonances in the midinfrared. `Because of this, the midinfrared is an important wavelength range for trace gas sensing applications.` In addition the midinfrared is also of interest for applications such as thermal imaging, countermeasures, and even free space communication. http://www.physorg.com/news154609081.html Physics Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:59:14 EST news154609081 (PhysOrg.com) -- Brightly glowing nanoparticles known as "Cornell dots" are a safe, effective way to "light up" cancerous tumors so surgeons can find and remove them. http://www.physorg.com/news154284998.html Nanotechnology Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:58:22 EST news154284998 The planet Jupiter gained weight in a hurry during its infancy. It had to, since the material from which it formed probably disappeared in just a few million years, according to a new study of planet formation around young stars. http://www.physorg.com/news150383252.html Space & Earth Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:07:32 EST news150383252 (PhysOrg.com) -- Using tiny gold particles and infrared light, MIT researchers have developed a drug-delivery system that allows multiple drugs to be released in a controlled fashion. http://www.physorg.com/news149860678.html Nanotechnology Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:57:58 EST news149860678 Black holes can now be thought of as donut holes. The shape of material around black holes has been seen for the first time: an analysis of over 200 active galactic nuclei -cores of galaxies powered by disks of hot material feeding a super-massive black hole -shows that all have a consistent, ordered physical structure that seems to be independent of the black hole's size. http://www.physorg.com/news148652427.html Space & Earth Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:20:27 EST news148652427 The glitter of gold may hold more than just beauty, or so says a team of MIT researchers that is working on ways to use tiny gold rods to fight cancer, deliver drugs and more. http://www.physorg.com/news138633587.html Physics Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:19:47 EST news138633587 (PhysOrg.com) -- The Pinwheel galaxy is gussied up in infrared light in a new picture from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. http://www.physorg.com/news135874607.html Space & Earth Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:56:47 EST news135874607