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. (PhysOrg.com) -- During the last several years, researchers have been building micro air vehicles (MAVs) that can autonomously fly through different environments by relying on GPS for navigation. Recently, a team of researchers has designed an MAV that can navigate unknown environments without GPS, which could enable it to overcome several limitations of GPS-dependent vehicles. http://www.physorg.com/news176390156.html Technology Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:16:45 EST news176390156 (PhysOrg.com) -- Climate scientists recognize that climate modeling projections include a significant level of uncertainty. A team of researchers using computing facilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has identified a new method for quantifying this uncertainty. http://www.physorg.com/news175361982.html Space & Earth Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:40:13 EST news175361982 As preparations for the launch of SMOS and Proba-2 continue on schedule, the engineers and technicians at the Russian launch site say goodbye as both satellites are encapsulated within the half-shells of the Rockot fairing. http://www.physorg.com/news175338859.html Space & Earth Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:15:27 EST news175338859 Cowpea, a protein-rich legume crop, is immensely important in many parts of the world, particularly drought-prone regions of Africa and Asia, where it plays a central role in the diet and economy of hundreds of millions of people. http://www.physorg.com/news174672194.html Biology Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:50:01 EST news174672194 The LRO Diviner instrument obtained infrared observations of the LCROSS impact. LRO flew by the LCROSS Centaur impact site 90 seconds after impact at a distance of ~80 km. Diviner was commanded to observe the impact site on eight successive orbits, and obtained a series of thermal maps before and after the impact at approximately two hour intervals at an angle of approximately 48 degrees off nadir. In this viewing geometry, the spatial footprint of each Diviner detector was roughly 300 by 700 meters. http://www.physorg.com/news174550201.html Space & Earth Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:10:33 EST news174550201 Since Apple Inc. announced it would support turn-by-turn GPS applications for the iPhone, a slew of GPS apps have appeared in the iTunes app store. http://www.physorg.com/news174207254.html Technology Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:00:01 EST news174207254 San Francisco is letting citizens create software tools to exploit city data for the public good. http://www.physorg.com/news173683903.html Technology Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:20:02 EST news173683903 Imagine seeing a cool-looking building from afar that you want to know more about. Or seeing someone whose name you can't remember coming toward you with their hand outstretched. http://www.physorg.com/news173556658.html Technology Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:11:32 EST news173556658 Adult entertainment studio Pink Visual on Tuesday unleashed software that lets people use iPhones to map sexual exploits. http://www.physorg.com/news173461073.html Technology Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:10:01 EST news173461073 (PhysOrg.com) -- Lasers are providing scientists with new tools for mapping, protecting, and restoring bird habitat along rivers. In a paper published in the October issue of Ecological Applications, scientists from PRBO Conservation Science and the Information Center for the Environment at UC Davis used aerial laser technology known as LiDAR (short for Light Detection And Ranging) to predict where different bird species occur in the Cosumnes River Preserve in central California, USA. http://www.physorg.com/news173462286.html Biology Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:02:40 EST news173462286 China has completed a high-resolution, three-dimensional map of the entire surface of the moon, in an important step towards a future lunar landing, an expert involved in the project said Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news173421923.html Space & Earth Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:10:02 EST news173421923 28 times per second, engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center fire a laser that travels about 250,000 miles to hit the minivan-sized Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft moving at nearly 3,600 miles per hour as it orbits the moon. http://www.physorg.com/news173011256.html Space & Earth Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:41:33 EST news173011256 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA reported Thursday that its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has successfully completed its testing and calibration phase and entered its mapping orbit of the moon. http://www.physorg.com/news172417835.html Space & Earth Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:20:01 EST news172417835 Scientists have assembled the first global geological map of the Solar System`s largest moon - and in doing so have gathered new evidence into the formation of the large, icy satellite. http://www.physorg.com/news172306592.html Space & Earth Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:00:01 EST news172306592 (PhysOrg.com) -- In half a century, one fungus has gone from being the bane of the Army quartermasters' existence in the Pacific to industry staple and someday, as part of the U.S. Department of Energy's mission to promote national energy security through clean, renewable energy development, a biofuel producers' best friend. http://www.physorg.com/news171126154.html Biology Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:20:03 EST news171126154 Typhoon Morakot brought enormous amounts of rainfall to Taiwan and China and NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) estimated it from space. http://www.physorg.com/news169136650.html Space & Earth Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:24:53 EST news169136650 (AP) -- The country's biggest phone and cable companies have agreed to hand over information about their broadband networks to help the federal government produce a national map showing where high-speed Internet connections are available across the U.S. http://www.physorg.com/news168965997.html Technology Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:10:01 EST news168965997 (PhysOrg.com) -- Robots are whirring away in factories all over the world, building cars, phones and cookers. Yet they can do so much more. Robotics for healthcare has been tipped as the next big wave, and Europe should be poised to ride it, according to a European road-mapping study. http://www.physorg.com/news168698587.html Electronics Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:00:01 EST news168698587 (PhysOrg.com) -- The first complete map of global ammonia emissions has recently been achieved using to satellite data. It reveals an underestimation of some of the ammonia concentrations detected by current inventories, and identifies new hotspots. http://www.physorg.com/news165073393.html Space & Earth Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:45:21 EST news165073393 (AP) -- A new Internet data map offers a first-of-its-kind, county-level look at HIV cases in the U.S. and finds the infection rates tend to be highest in the South. http://www.physorg.com/news164898312.html Medicine & Health Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:05:53 EST news164898312 (PhysOrg.com) -- The Apple iPhone is one of the most versatile smart phones around today and it's about to get better. The news of what the next generation iPhone will be like is traveling fast. http://www.physorg.com/news162548771.html Electronics Tue, 26 May 2009 09:26:35 EST news162548771 (AP) -- When Google Earth added historical maps of Japan to its online collection last year, the search giant didn't expect a backlash. The finely detailed woodblock prints have been around for centuries, they were already posted on another Web site, and a historical map of Tokyo put up in 2006 hadn't caused any problems. http://www.physorg.com/news160517813.html Technology Sat, 02 May 2009 21:23:06 EST news160517813 Scientists at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, and the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech have taken the first steps toward constructing a systems biology map of iron metabolism. The team has put together a general network of chemicals and reactions important for the many steps and reactions that constitute iron metabolism. http://www.physorg.com/news160135994.html Chemistry Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:13:49 EST news160135994 Countries and policy leaders gain new guidance today on how and when to eliminate malaria, paving the way for the potential global eradication of the deadly disease. The announcement is being made on behalf of the Malaria Elimination Group, a global body of researchers, policy experts and country program managers, by the Global Health Group of UCSF Global Health Sciences. http://www.physorg.com/news159776879.html Medicine & Health Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:29:39 EST news159776879 Using data from nearly 8000 local surveys of malaria parasite infection rates, an international team of researchers has built a global map showing the proportion of the population infected with the parasite Plasmodium falciparum at locations throughout the globe. Published in this week's PLoS Medicine, the map shows that areas where a high proportion of residents are infected are common - but by no means uniform - in Africa, while lower prevalence levels are found in the Americas and Central and Southeast Asia, although pockets of intermediate and high transmission remain in some parts of Asia. http://www.physorg.com/news157105558.html Medicine & Health Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:27:02 EST news157105558 A new map of the Earth`s gravitational force based on satellite measurements makes it much less resource intensive to find new oil deposits. The map will be particularly useful as the ice melts in the oil-rich Arctic regions. Ole Baltazar, senior scientist at the National Space Institute, Technical University of Denmark (DTU Space), headed the development of the map. http://www.physorg.com/news154965701.html Space & Earth Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:02:11 EST news154965701 (PhysOrg.com) -- The most detailed map of the Moon ever created has revealed never-before-seen craters at the lunar poles. The map is also revealing secrets about the Moon's interior -- and hinting about Mars's interior as well. C.K. Shum, professor of earth sciences at Ohio State University, is part of the international research team that published the map in the February 13 issue of the journal Science. http://www.physorg.com/news153671640.html Space & Earth Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:34:36 EST news153671640 Transportation and security officials on Inauguration Day will have a centralized, consolidated stream of traffic information and other data displayed on a single screen using software developed by the University of Maryland. The Regional Integrated Transportation Information System (RITIS) gives officials a single real-time view far more comprehensive than previously available. http://www.physorg.com/news151255928.html Technology Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:32:08 EST news151255928 Iowa State University's Martin Pohl is part of a research team that has developed the first complete map of the Milky Way galaxy's spiral arms. The map shows the inner part of the Milky Way has two prominent, symmetric spiral arms, which extend into the outer galaxy where they branch into four spiral arms. http://www.physorg.com/news150365610.html Space & Earth Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:13:30 EST news150365610 (PhysOrg.com) -- Oxford University research has helped understanding of the so-called ‘cocktail party effect` - how our brains develop the ability to pinpoint and focus on particular sounds among a background of noise. http://www.physorg.com/news146150978.html Medicine & Health Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:29:38 EST news146150978