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. Microwave satellite imagery has revealed that Tropical Storm Mirinae is strengthening enough to develop an eye, and that's what it's doing. Mirinae was formerly Tropical Depression 23W, but became a tropical storm and received its name. http://www.physorg.com/news175875612.html Space & Earth Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:40:06 EST news175875612 NASA's Aqua and Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellites are watching Tropical Storm Neki become extra-tropical, and TRMM data was used to create a three-dimensional image of the storm. http://www.physorg.com/news175792002.html Space & Earth Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:08:02 EST news175792002 Typhoon Lupit is closing in on northern Luzon, the Philippines, and is expected to make a brief landfall (of about 24 hours) there October 22 before heading into the South China Sea. http://www.physorg.com/news175275821.html Space & Earth Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:50:01 EST news175275821 Tropical Storm Neki formed today about 830 miles southeast of Johnston Island in the Central Pacific Ocean. NASA's QuikScat and Aqua satellites quickly captured and analyzed winds and temperatures in Neki, enabling forecasters to see the storm strengthening. http://www.physorg.com/news175190733.html Space & Earth Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:00:06 EST news175190733 Melor began as a tropical depression back on the 29th of September 2009 about 1000 miles (~1600 km) east-southeast of Guam in the Northern Mariana Islands. Over the next couple of days, the system steadily intensified, first into a tropical storm on the 30th, then into a typhoon on the morning of the 1st of October. At which time, Melor underwent a rapid intensification cycle and quickly reached Category 4 intensity on the night of the 1st with sustained winds estimated at 115 knots (~132 mph) by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) as it moved toward the west-northwest in the direction of the Northern Marianas. Melor underwent minor fluctuations in intensity before passing through the Northern Marianas Islands on the afternoon (local time) of the 3rd where it caused only relatively minor damage. After clearing the islands, Melor strengthened once again, becoming the 3rd super typhoon of the year as it crossed through the central Philippine Sea. Melor reached its peak intensity on the 4th when its sustained winds were estimated at 145 knots (~167 mph) by JTWC. http://www.physorg.com/news174240874.html Space & Earth Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:30:03 EST news174240874 NASA is figuring out how to make water from moondust. Sounds like magic? "No magic--" says Ed Ethridge of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center "-- just microwaves. We're showing how microwaves can extract water from moondust by heating it from the inside out." http://www.physorg.com/news174241668.html Space & Earth Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:30:02 EST news174241668 (PhysOrg.com) -- A group of researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology has developed a handheld camera that uses microwave signals to non-destructively peek inside materials and structures in real time. http://www.physorg.com/news174054998.html Technology Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:37:14 EST news174054998 BOSS, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, is the most ambitious attempt yet to map the expansion history of the Universe using the technique known as baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO). A part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III), BOSS achieved "first light" on the night of September 14-15, when it acquired data with an upgraded spectrographic system across the entire focal plane of the Sloan Foundation 2.5-meter telescope at Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico. http://www.physorg.com/news173626603.html Space & Earth Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:50:01 EST news173626603 Fujitsu announced today the development of the world's first gallium-nitride HEMT-based transceiver amplifier chipset for broadband wireless transmission equipment operating in the millimeter bandwidth, the range of 70 to 100 GHz, for which widespread usage is expected to grow. The new transceiver amplifier chipset features a GaN HEMT-based high-output transmitter amplifier and high-sensitivity receiver amplifier. http://www.physorg.com/news173555471.html Technology Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:40:01 EST news173555471 NASA and the Japanese Space Agency's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite flew over the center of Super Typhoon Choi-Wan at 2:34 EDT on September 17, 2009 and captured heavy rainfall around the storm's center. http://www.physorg.com/news172424246.html Space & Earth Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:40:01 EST news172424246 (PhysOrg.com) -- Planck, ESA's mission to study the early Universe, started surveying the sky regularly from its vantage point at L2 on 13 August. The instruments of ESA's 'time machine' were fine-tuned for optimum performance in the period preceding this date. In preparation for routine scientific operations, their long-term stability has been verified by conducting a first 'trial' survey. http://www.physorg.com/news172391541.html Space & Earth Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:33:06 EST news172391541 Researchers funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research at the University of Michigan invented a new type of magnetron that may be used to defeat enemy electronics. A magnetron is type of vacuum tube used as the frequency source in microwave ovens, radar systems and other high-power microwave circuits. http://www.physorg.com/news172331211.html Technology Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:10:02 EST news172331211 Microwave imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite revealed extremely high thunderstorms in Typhoon Choi-Wan as it began passing the island of Sai-Pan in the Western Pacific Ocean. The U.S. National Weather Service has already issued a tropical storm warning and a typhoon watch for Tinian, Saipan and Agrihan in the Northern Mariana Islands. http://www.physorg.com/news172151667.html Space & Earth Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:30:01 EST news172151667 (PhysOrg.com) -- In the series Star Trek, Klingons and Romulans have spaceships outfitted with cloaking devices that hide their presence from sight, as well as from the sensors of their rivals' spaceships. Unlike current invisibility cloaks, which are mostly effective only over a narrow range, these fictional devices provide a broadband type of invisibility that so far has eluded modern scientists. http://www.physorg.com/news171876586.html Physics Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:00:01 EST news171876586 Linda managed to power up to hurricane status at 11 p.m. EDT last night (September 9), and she's running into cooler waters and wind shear, so she's not expected to hold that strength through tomorrow. Microwave imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite revealed a 10 percent opening in her eyewall and that's a clue that the storm can weaken. http://www.physorg.com/news171805244.html Space & Earth Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:50:02 EST news171805244 (PhysOrg.com) -- While researchers have already demonstrated the building blocks for few-bit quantum computers, scaling these systems up to large quantum computers remains a challenge. One of the biggest problems is developing physical systems that can reliably store thousands of qubits, and enabling bits and pairs to be addressed individually for gate operations. http://www.physorg.com/news171705608.html Physics Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:02:02 EST news171705608 A company from one of ESA's Business Incubation Centres has used space technology to develop a scanner to spot weaknesses in dike structures. It is being used to inspect dikes and dams on the Danube river and in the Netherlands. http://www.physorg.com/news171272283.html Space & Earth Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:38:48 EST news171272283 You imagine a clock to be different -- yet the optical table with its many complicated set-ups really is one. Optical clocks like the strontium clock in the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) in Braunschweig could be the atomic clocks of the future; some of them though are already ten times more precise and stable than the best primary caesium atomic clocks. http://www.physorg.com/news171195370.html Physics Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:16:41 EST news171195370 Two days ago, Hilda was in prime shape to strengthen further as she tracked westward, far south of the Hawaiian Islands. Today, as a result of winds and cooler waters, she's weakened to a tropical depression, and NASA satellites helped confirm that looking at her waning winds and thunderstorms. http://www.physorg.com/news170594576.html Space & Earth Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:40:01 EST news170594576 (PhysOrg.com) -- Despite their popularity in the science fiction genre, there is much to be learned about black holes, the mysterious regions in space once thought to be absent of light. In a paper published in the August 20 issue of Physical Review Letters Dartmouth researchers propose a new way of creating a reproduction black hole in the laboratory on a much-tinier scale than their celestial counterparts. http://www.physorg.com/news170081334.html Physics Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:50:01 EST news170081334 NASA satellites continue to capture important wind speed and cloud data that forecasters at the National Hurricane Center are using to help their forecasts. QuikScat has been particularly helpful in determining the extent of hurricane and tropical storm-force winds, and they go a great distance. http://www.physorg.com/news169998791.html Space & Earth Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:54:02 EST news169998791 Anyone who's vacationed in the mountains or lived on a farm knows that it's hard to get good internet access or a strong cell phone signal in a remote area. Communicating across great distances has always been a challenge. So when NASA engineers designed the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), they knew it would need an extraordinary communications system. http://www.physorg.com/news169912309.html Space & Earth Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:30:03 EST news169912309 (PhysOrg.com) -- An investigation by a major scientific group has advanced understanding of the early evolution of the universe. http://www.physorg.com/news169907305.html Physics Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:29:09 EST news169907305 The TRMM satellite noticed a wide-eyed Hurricane Bill's rainfall is intensifying indicating he's getting stronger. Satellite images have also shown Bill's eye is widening. http://www.physorg.com/news169819465.html Space & Earth Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:05:08 EST news169819465 Bill was the third tropical depression in the Atlantic Ocean hurricane season, behind Ana and Tropical Depression One. Over the weekend Bill grew into the first hurricane in the Atlantic this season. Two NASA Satellites captured Bill's rainfall and cloud temperatures as he was powering up. http://www.physorg.com/news169743792.html Space & Earth Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:20:02 EST news169743792 The Planck space telescope has begun to collect light left over from the Big Bang explosion that created our universe. http://www.physorg.com/news169480332.html Space & Earth Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:52:30 EST news169480332 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 NASA satellite imagery has helped forecasters see that Hurricane Felicia is running into cooler waters and increasing wind shear, two things have taken her strength "down a peg or two." Felicia will continue to weaken further over the weekend as she heads to Hawaii where landfall isn't expected until late Monday or early Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news168929484.html Space & Earth Sat, 08 Aug 2009 05:51:55 EST news168929484 Satellite imagery over the last two days has shown Typhoon Morakot to be a monster, and over the last two days, NASA satellites have confirmed the typhoon doubled its size! http://www.physorg.com/news168789060.html Space & Earth Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:30:02 EST news168789060 (PhysOrg.com) -- Fundamental research in cosmology continues to disclose ever more mysteries of the first millennia of the universe. More detailed knowledge will be delivered by the recently launched Planck Satellite which will measure the microwave background - the so-called echo of the Big Bang. How can we expose the broader public to the complex physics of the early universe? In the "International Year of Astronomy" (2009) the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA, Germany) tries an unusual experiment: a comic on the Internet about the physical processes that took place during the first 400,000 years after the Big Bang. http://www.physorg.com/news168698892.html Space & Earth Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:10:01 EST news168698892