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. Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Sinatra and Hendrix -- these and many other of the world's most famous musicians have had "perfect" or "absolute" pitch. The ability, defined as recognizing the pitch of a musical note without having to compare it to any reference note, is quite rare in the U.S. and Europe, where only about one person in 10,000 is thought to have it. Often lumped into the mysterious realm of Talent, perfect pitch is - according to Diana Deutsch of the University of California, San Diego - probably more the result of nurture than nature, more environment than genes. http://www.physorg.com/news161968399.html Other Sciences Tue, 19 May 2009 16:13:52 EST news161968399 Brazil, a Portuguese speaking country is the 10th largest economy in the world and Yahoo has decided to get in on the action by coming up with a clone Twitter. The economic down-turn has affected Brazil to some degree, but its Foreign Minister Guido Mantega has announced it is cautiously optimistic for a turn around at years end. http://www.physorg.com/news161628702.html Technology Fri, 15 May 2009 17:52:16 EST news161628702 Young children learn how to speak and understand language from the words parents speak at home and teachers speak in preschool. A new longitudinal study has found that their preschool classmates also play a part. http://www.physorg.com/news161606874.html Medicine & Health Fri, 15 May 2009 11:48:18 EST news161606874 (PhysOrg.com) -- Teaching young children how to speak a second language is good for their minds, report two Cornell linguistic researchers. http://www.physorg.com/news161451807.html Medicine & Health Wed, 13 May 2009 16:44:17 EST news161451807 Iron plays a large role in brain development in the womb, and new University of Rochester Medical Center research shows an iron deficiency may delay the development of auditory nervous system in preemies. This delay could affect babies ability to process sound which is critical for later language development in early childhood. http://www.physorg.com/news160674444.html Medicine & Health Mon, 04 May 2009 16:47:55 EST news160674444 In an advance that will help speed global development of new drugs and patenting of new commercial and industrial products, a scientist in New Mexico is reporting development of the first computer program that can quickly and accurately translate complex chemical names from one language into another. http://www.physorg.com/news160233216.html Chemistry Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:14:01 EST news160233216 (AP) -- Sun Microsystems Inc.'s loss ballooned in the latest quarter as restructuring charges and a 20 percent drop in sales compounded the financial woes Oracle Corp. is set to inherit by acquiring Sun for $7.4 billion. http://www.physorg.com/news160157226.html Technology Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:07:34 EST news160157226 (PhysOrg.com) -- The Rosetta Stone allowed 19th century scholars to translate symbols left by an ancient civilization and thus decipher the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphics. http://www.physorg.com/news159715706.html Other Sciences Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:29:00 EST news159715706 Scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have created lip-reading computers that can distinguish between different languages. http://www.physorg.com/news159599897.html Technology Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:18:38 EST news159599897 They're a firm part of our language and even speak to us of our national culture - but some words aren't quite as English as we think. http://www.physorg.com/news159540772.html Other Sciences Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:53:17 EST news159540772 (PhysOrg.com) -- Technology under development by Pedro Torres-Carrasquillo and his colleagues at Lincoln Laboratory may lead to a dialect identification system that compensates for a translator's inexperience with multiple variants of a spoken language. http://www.physorg.com/news159110278.html Technology Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:18:45 EST news159110278 The discovery of a remarkably well-preserved monumental temple in Turkey - thought to be constructed during the time of King Solomon in the 10th/9th-centuries BC -- sheds light on the so-called Dark Age. http://www.physorg.com/news159025472.html Other Sciences Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:45:09 EST news159025472 Last fall, scientists from the University of Minnesota returned from Kentucky with some 600 preserved brains and 439 boxes filled with memories. That's how the world-famous Nun Study of Alzheimer's disease came home to Minnesota, where it first began. http://www.physorg.com/news157228208.html Medicine & Health Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:34:08 EST news157228208 Researchers know that alcoholism can damage the brain's frontal lobes and cerebellum, regions involved in language processing. Nonetheless, alcoholics' language skills appear to be relatively spared from alcohol's damaging effects. New findings suggest the brain maintains language skills by drawing upon other systems that would normally be used to perform other tasks simultaneously. http://www.physorg.com/news156783978.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:06:44 EST news156783978 (PhysOrg.com) -- Parlez-vous français? If you were quick at learning foreign languages at school, it could be because your brain has an enhanced ability to remember sequences. http://www.physorg.com/news156705624.html Medicine & Health Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:20:56 EST news156705624 Social networking website Bebo on Monday announced the launch of five new European-language versions, its first major expansion outside the English-speaking world. http://www.physorg.com/news156407379.html Technology Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:30:16 EST news156407379 Hyperbaric treatment for children with autism has reportedly led to improvements in the condition, though previous studies were uncontrolled. Now, a new study published in the open access journal, BMC Pediatrics, is the first controlled trial to report clinical improvements. http://www.physorg.com/news156161909.html Medicine & Health Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:19:11 EST news156161909 The World Wide Web (WWW) on Friday marked its 20th anniversary and its founders admitted there were bits of the phenomenon they do not like: advertising and "snooping." http://www.physorg.com/news156154426.html Technology Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:30:19 EST news156154426 Children's moral behavior and attitudes in the real world largely carry over to the virtual world of computers, the Internet, video games and cell phones. Interestingly, there are marked gender and race differences in the way children rate morally questionable virtual behaviors, according to Professor Linda Jackson and her team from Michigan State University in the US. Their research is the first systematic investigation of the effects of gender and race on children's beliefs about moral behavior, both in the virtual world and the real world, and the relationship between the two. The study was published online in Springer's journal, Sex Roles. http://www.physorg.com/news155220473.html Medicine & Health Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:48:24 EST news155220473 The oldest words in the English language include "I" and "who", while words like "dirty" could die out relatively quickly, British researchers said Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news154875116.html Other Sciences Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:52:28 EST news154875116 (PhysOrg.com) -- Advances in cognitive neuroscience (the science of how the brain works when we think) have shown that what our eyes see and what our brain interprets are two different things. Professor Guillaume Thierry, Dr Panos Athanasopoulos and colleagues report in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA that our language causes our brains to perceive colours differently. http://www.physorg.com/news154865165.html Medicine & Health Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:08:29 EST news154865165 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 Spanish and Russian are relatively different languages, even if they historically share a common basis in the Indo-European family. The differences extend to the verbal system. Spanish has inherited a system that is relatively rich in forms from Latin. Russian, however, has a structure that is more similar to Classic Greek with a division based on the concept of aspect. David Westerholm, at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, compares the way past time is expressed in Spanish and in Russian and arrives at a new analysis model that can also be applied to other languages. http://www.physorg.com/news154607732.html Other Sciences Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:36:30 EST news154607732 (PhysOrg.com) -- Gestures serve an important role in language learning and development, and differ depending upon the language and culture, notes a Georgia State University researcher who is investigating how children born blind use gestures as part of language development in the United States and Turkey. http://www.physorg.com/news154360199.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:50:38 EST news154360199 We engage in numerous discussions throughout the day, about a variety of topics, from work assignments to the Super Bowl to what we are having for dinner that evening. We effortlessly move from conversation to conversation, probably not thinking twice about our brain's ability to understand everything that is being said to us. How does the brain turn seemingly random sounds and letters into sentences with clear meaning? http://www.physorg.com/news154349880.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:58:17 EST news154349880 Deaf children are able to develop a language-like gesture system by making up hand signs and using homemade systems to increase their communication as they grow, just as children with conventional spoken language, research at the University of Chicago shows. http://www.physorg.com/news153928311.html Medicine & Health Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:54:37 EST news153928311 The book "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus" and its gender stereotypes on how the sexes communicate remains fodder for debate, but two Indiana University researchers have confirmed one thing: When men and women talk through technology, it's the women who are more expressive. http://www.physorg.com/news153503901.html Other Sciences Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:58:45 EST news153503901 Learning their community language outside the home enhances minority ethnic children's development, according to research led from the University of Birmingham. The research, which was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, found that attending language classes at complementary schools has a positive impact on students. http://www.physorg.com/news153473480.html Other Sciences Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:32:17 EST news153473480 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of St Andrews have discovered that gorillas have a more extensive repertoire of gestures than any other mammal. http://www.physorg.com/news153413952.html Biology Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:59:43 EST news153413952 Capt. Kirk and his unforgettable "Beam me up, Scotty" introduced a generation to the concept of videophones on the 1960s drama series "Star Trek." The phones are now a reality - for more than 100,000 deaf people. http://www.physorg.com/news152982747.html Electronics Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:13:31 EST news152982747