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. (AP) -- Palm Inc., which revitalized its product line with the Pre smart phone launch in June, is hoping to keep momentum going with the release of a lighter, cheaper handset called the Pixi. http://www.physorg.com/news171696169.html Electronics Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:24:42 EST news171696169 Panasonic today announced that it has introduced its newest addition to its LUMIX G Micro System line-up of advanced digital interchangeable lens system cameras based on the Micro Four Thirds system standard. The new LUMIX DMC-GF1 debuts as the world's smallest and lightest system camera with built-in flash. http://www.physorg.com/news171130121.html Electronics Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:20:20 EST news171130121 (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. is giving its operating system for "smart phones" a new look in time for the holiday shopping season. http://www.physorg.com/news171017504.html Technology Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:52:18 EST news171017504 Worldwide mobile phone sales fell by 6.1 percent in the second quarter from a year ago but smartphone sales were up sharply in the period, market research firm Gartner reported Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news169317113.html Technology Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:00:03 EST news169317113 (AP) -- A federal judge has barred RealNetworks Inc. from selling a device that allows consumers to copy DVDs to their computer hard drives, pending a full trial. http://www.physorg.com/news169282944.html Technology Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:20:02 EST news169282944 Sony today announced two new Cyber-shot cameras (DSC-TX1 and DSC-WX1 models) that provide unprecedented advances in low-light performance with approximately twice the sensitivity of cameras with traditional image sensors. http://www.physorg.com/news168793522.html Electronics Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:07:22 EST news168793522 (PhysOrg.com) -- The masterpieces that spring from the talents of Rembrandt, Van Gogh and other artists often begin with the creation of a gradient of colors on a palette. In a similar manner, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have created an innovative device called the `microfluidic palette` to produce multiple, steady-state chemical gradients -gradual changes in concentration across an area -in a miniature chamber about the diameter of a pinhead. The tool can be used to study the complex biological mechanisms in cells responsible for cancer metastasis, wound healing, biofilm formation and other fluid-related processes. http://www.physorg.com/news168018490.html Chemistry Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:50:03 EST news168018490 T-Mobile USA and Research In Motion today announced the new BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone, a new addition to the BlackBerry Curve series of smartphones, with availability expected on August 5. http://www.physorg.com/news167932606.html Electronics Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:00:02 EST news167932606 In the classic fairy tale, "The Emperor's New Clothes," Hans Christian Andersen uses the eyes of a child to challenge conventional wisdom and help others to see more clearly. In similar fashion, researchers at the University of Illinois have now revealed the naked truth about a classic bell-shaped curve used to describe the motion of a liquid as it diffuses through another material. http://www.physorg.com/news167934205.html Physics Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:00:02 EST news167934205 (PhysOrg.com) -- A study published in the July 17 issue of the journal Science details how sandfish -- small lizards with smooth scales -- move rapidly underground through desert sand. In this first thorough examination of subsurface sandfish locomotion, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology found that the animals place their limbs against their sides and create a wave motion with their bodies to propel themselves through granular media. http://www.physorg.com/news166973246.html Physics Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:27:56 EST news166973246 As soccer continues to grow in popularity, injuries to soccer players are likely to increase as well. Certain injuries fall into gender-based patterns and new research at Hospital for Special Surgery suggests some underlying causes that could help lead to better treatment, or even prevention for present and future soccer stars. http://www.physorg.com/news166347224.html Medicine & Health Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:50:01 EST news166347224 (PhysOrg.com) -- Human-computer interaction is undergoing a revolution, entering a multimodal era that goes beyond, way beyond, the WIMP (Windows-Icons-Menus-Pointers) paradigm. Now European researchers have developed a platform to speed up that revolution. http://www.physorg.com/news166285286.html Technology Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:00:07 EST news166285286 From the motion sensor to the computer chip - in many products of daily life components are used whose functioning is based on smallest structures of the size of thousandths - or even millionths - of millimetres. These micro and nano structures must be manufactured and assembled with the highest precision so that in the end, the overall system will function smoothly. http://www.physorg.com/news166093649.html Nanotechnology Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:08:07 EST news166093649 (AP) -- No more asking around the office for the right sort of charger. At least that's what European Union and cell phone makers are hoping. http://www.physorg.com/news165487897.html Electronics Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:55:43 EST news165487897 (AP) -- BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. on Thursday reported a better-than-expected 33 percent jump in first-quarter profit as the company continues to boost market share among non-corporate customers. http://www.physorg.com/news164601812.html Technology Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:43:58 EST news164601812 By using a super-computer to virtually squeeze and heat iron-bearing minerals under conditions that would have existed when the Earth crystallized from an ocean of magma to its solid form 4.5 billion years ago, two UC Davis geochemists have produced the first picture of how different isotopes of iron were initially distributed in the solid Earth. http://www.physorg.com/news164296785.html Space & Earth Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:40:01 EST news164296785 When Apple Inc. launched an updated iPhone at its annual gathering of software developers last June, its biggest competitor was the iPhone that Apple had introduced the year before. http://www.physorg.com/news163431153.html Electronics Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:33:10 EST news163431153 The Palm Pre, the new smartphone from the US pioneer in handheld devices, goes on sale in the United States on Saturday amid generally glowing reviews and favorable comparisons to Apple's iPhone. http://www.physorg.com/news163425110.html Electronics Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:52:13 EST news163425110 (AP) -- This year's Electronic Entertainment Expo has been quite the moving experience. http://www.physorg.com/news163254077.html Electronics Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:22:04 EST news163254077 (AP) -- When Palm Inc.'s and Sprint Nextel Corp.'s latest bundle of smart phone joy, the Pre, arrives Saturday, it will be entering an increasingly crowded market backed by parents that have a lot riding on its success. http://www.physorg.com/news163176545.html Electronics Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:49:43 EST news163176545 A new method to induce protein folding by taking the pressure off of proteins is up to 100 times faster than previous methods, and could help guide more accurate computer simulations for how complex proteins fold, according to research by a team of University of Illinois scientists accepted for publication in the journal Nature Methods and posted on the journal's Web site May 31. http://www.physorg.com/news163095980.html Chemistry Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:27:05 EST news163095980 (PhysOrg.com) -- A juggler and a conductor were among the artists who helped create a device which can retrieve dozens of different movement sequences in a matter of minutes. http://www.physorg.com/news163082930.html Technology Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:49:31 EST news163082930 (AP) -- Verizon Wireless will introduce phones based on Google Inc.'s Android software "in the near future," its chief executive said Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news162743873.html Technology Thu, 28 May 2009 15:38:39 EST news162743873 It is well known that people use head motion during conversation to convey a range of meanings and emotions, and that women use more active head motion when conversing with each other than men use when they talk with each other. http://www.physorg.com/news162451415.html Medicine & Health Mon, 25 May 2009 06:24:07 EST news162451415 Ginger, long used as a folk remedy for soothing tummyaches, helped tame one of the most dreaded side effects of cancer treatment - nausea from chemotherapy, the first large study to test the herb for this has found. http://www.physorg.com/news161544273.html Medicine & Health Thu, 14 May 2009 18:25:12 EST news161544273 Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute have elucidated the action of a protein, harmonin, which is involved in the mechanics of hearing. This finding sheds new light on the workings of mechanotransduction, the process by which cells convert mechanical stimuli into electrical activity. Defects in mechanotransduction genes can cause devastating diseases, such as Usher's syndrome, which is characterized by deafness, gradual vision loss, and kidney disease, which can lead to kidney failure. http://www.physorg.com/news161440415.html Medicine & Health Wed, 13 May 2009 13:34:23 EST news161440415 Researchers in condensed matter physics at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago have created an experimental and computer model to study how jamming, the physical process in which collections of particles are crammed together to behave as solids, might affect the behavior of systems in which thermal motion is important, such as molecules in a glass. http://www.physorg.com/news161439954.html Physics Wed, 13 May 2009 13:27:01 EST news161439954 US computer giant Hewlett-Packard and Canada's Research In Motion (RIM) announced an alliance on Monday to provide applications and services for the popular Blackberry smartphone. http://www.physorg.com/news160681331.html Technology Mon, 04 May 2009 18:42:41 EST news160681331 Two places on opposite sides of Earth may hold the secret to how the moon was born. NASA's twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft are about to enter these zones, known as the L4 and L5 Lagrangian points, each centered about 93 million miles away along Earth's orbit. http://www.physorg.com/news158515936.html Space & Earth Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:15:44 EST news158515936 The April 2009 edition of Mechanical Engineering magazine profiles Mike Marshall, the former major league baseball hurler who teaches a pitching methodology based on Sir Isaac Newton`s three laws of motion. http://www.physorg.com/news158334634.html Technology Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:51:03 EST news158334634