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. Up to now, extreme production temperatures made it impossible to equip metallic components with RFID chips during the operating process. At Euromold in Frankfurt (Dec. 2-5), Germany, Fraunhofer researchers present a variation on a process that makes the non-destructive integration of radio chips a reality. http://www.physorg.com/news178279408.html Technology Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:20:02 EST news178279408 (PhysOrg.com) -- Last week, in Takoma Park, Md., a new cryptographic voting system that could ensure accurate vote counts was used for the first time in a real election. MIT`s Ron Rivest, the Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, helped develop the system and says he`s quite pleased with how the technology worked. Takoma Park`s city clerk, Jessie Carpenter, agrees that the trial "went very well." http://www.physorg.com/news177324972.html Technology Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:10:01 EST news177324972 (AP) -- Of all the sinister things that Internet viruses do, this might be the worst: They can make you an unsuspecting collector of child pornography. http://www.physorg.com/news176909257.html Technology Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:40:04 EST news176909257 Google Voice, the service that can route calls to multiple phone numbers and access voice mail, is now available on users' existing cell phone numbers. http://www.physorg.com/news176061948.html Technology Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:10:01 EST news176061948 (AP) -- You're probably used to typing your name, address and credit card number when you buy things online. Amazon.com is guessing you don't enjoy it, though, and wants to simplify the process by letting you purchase items with a short phrase such as "Shopping Fanatic" and an identification number. http://www.physorg.com/news176013541.html Technology Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:39:45 EST news176013541 (AP) -- Google Inc. says its free messaging and calling service, Google Voice, blocks calls to fewer than 100 phone numbers likely to be adult chat lines and free conference call services. http://www.physorg.com/news175976483.html Technology Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:22:02 EST news175976483 (AP) -- Comcast Corp. wants to enlist its customers in a fight against a huge problem for Internet providers - the armies of infected personal computers, known as "botnets," that suck up bandwidth by sending spam and facilitating cybercrime. http://www.physorg.com/news174366185.html Technology Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:20:03 EST news174366185 Investigators in the United States and Egypt have smashed a computer "phishing" identity theft scam described as the biggest cyber-crime investigation in US history, officials said Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news174158571.html Technology Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:40:02 EST news174158571 (AP) -- The cost of making phone calls has been dropping rapidly in the last few years. If you want take full advantage of that, you'll need to try some new things, because the phone companies aren't going to thrust savings on you. Here are 10 tips on how to cut the cost of your phone service. http://www.physorg.com/news173552258.html Technology Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:10:01 EST news173552258 (AP) -- A Swiss government official is demanding that Google Inc. immediately take off the Internet any "Street View" images of Switzerland, and the company said Monday it would work to resolve problems with the privacy rights regulator. http://www.physorg.com/news170330788.html Technology Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:07:00 EST news170330788 (AP) -- Former Hewlett-Packard Co. chief executive Carly Fiorina on Tuesday took the first formal step toward running for Democrat Barbara Boxer's U.S. Senate seat. http://www.physorg.com/news169836118.html Technology Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:50:01 EST news169836118 With the exception of touch-tone phones, Caller ID and cell phones, talking on the phone hasn't changed a lot during the past few decades. That's a big reason why people are increasingly choosing to text, e-mail and send instant messages instead of making a call. http://www.physorg.com/news168717446.html Technology Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:20:01 EST news168717446 (PhysOrg.com) -- When Enrico Fermi investigated the Rydberg atom in the '30s, he never imagined that the giant atoms could form molecules. Later, in the '70s and '80s, theoretical physicist Chris Greene predicted that Rydberg molecules could exist. But it wasn't until recent advancements in ultracold physics that such an observation has been made possible. A recent study now shows that the Rydberg molecule can be created in the lab, and its observation supports decades of theory. http://www.physorg.com/news160126684.html Physics Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:38:45 EST news160126684 Schemers claiming to be Uncle Sam are filling e-mail boxes in Contra Costa County, Calif., and across the country with messages asking for people's personal information. http://www.physorg.com/news153932135.html Technology Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:56:06 EST news153932135 Basic arithmetic and "number sense" appear to be part of the shared evolutionary past of many primates; it's the use of language to explain abstractions that apparently takes human math to a higher level. http://www.physorg.com/news153761341.html Biology Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:29:35 EST news153761341 A new study shows that schizophrenia is caused, at least in part, by large, rare structural changes in DNA referred to as copy number variants (CNVs) - not the tiny, single letter alterations (single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that scientists have pursued for years. The findings are published February 6 in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics. http://www.physorg.com/news153129357.html Medicine & Health Fri, 06 Feb 2009 07:59:16 EST news153129357 Thefts of personally identifiable information (PII), such as social security and credit card account numbers, are increasing dramatically. Adding to the difficulty of fighting this problem, organizations often disagree on what PII is, and how to protect it. Now, in a first-of-its-kind publication, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued a draft guide on protecting PII from unauthorized use and disclosure. http://www.physorg.com/news151089599.html Technology Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:19:59 EST news151089599 (PhysOrg.com) -- A Newcastle University study involving thousands of families is helping prospective parents work out whether they are likely to have sons or daughters. http://www.physorg.com/news148226702.html Biology Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:05:02 EST news148226702 A new national screening strategy in Denmark has halved the number of infants born with Down's syndrome and increased the number of infants diagnosed before birth by 30%, according to a study published on bmj.com today. http://www.physorg.com/news147081337.html Medicine & Health Fri, 28 Nov 2008 07:55:37 EST news147081337 Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have identified distinctive genetic changes in the cancer cells of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) that cause relapse. The finding offers a pathway to designing treatments for ALL relapse in children and, ultimately, in adults. http://www.physorg.com/news147015318.html Medicine & Health Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:35:18 EST news147015318 A "chip" or array that can quickly detect disorders such as Down syndrome or other diseases associated with chromosomal abnormalities proved an effective tool in prenatal diagnosis in a series of 300 cases at Baylor College of Medicine, said researchers in a report that appears in the current issue of the journal Prenatal Diagnosis. http://www.physorg.com/news146138198.html Medicine & Health Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:56:38 EST news146138198 Researchers have carried out the largest study of differences between human and chimpanzee genomes, identifying regions that have been duplicated or lost during evolution of the two lineages. The study, published in Genome Research, is the first to compare many human and chimpanzee genomes in the same fashion. http://www.physorg.com/news145182073.html Biology Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:21:13 EST news145182073 Medical researchers at the University of Alberta have unlocked part of the mystery underlying a childhood eye disease. New research shows how children with some types of glaucoma end up with missing or extra pieces of DNA. http://www.physorg.com/news144671028.html Medicine & Health Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:23:48 EST news144671028 (PhysOrg.com) -- Research led by the head of visual neuroscience at UQ's Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) has demonstrated honey bees are capable of routinely counting up to four. http://www.physorg.com/news144427441.html Biology Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:44:01 EST news144427441 Hypnosis can induce synaesthetic experiences - where one sense triggers the involuntary use of another - according to a new study by UCL (University College London) researchers. The findings suggests that people with synaesthesia, contrary to popular belief, do not necessarily have extra connections in their brain; rather, their brains may simply do more 'cross talking' and this can be induced by changing inhibitory processes in the average brain. http://www.physorg.com/news143889431.html Medicine & Health Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:17:11 EST news143889431 Heavy advertising by both Democratic and Republican presidential candidates may actually make voters in battleground states more confused about which candidate to vote for, a new study suggests. http://www.physorg.com/news143725413.html Other Sciences Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:43:33 EST news143725413 The American Institute of Mathematics announces that Soundararajan and Roman Holowinsky have proven a significant version of the quantum unique ergodicity conjecture. Their work, based in the pure mathematics area of number theory, illuminates deep connections between classical and quantum physics in what is being hailed as one of the best theorems of the year. http://www.physorg.com/news142834558.html Other Sciences Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:15:58 EST news142834558 [B]Research paper: A retrospective analysis of hospital episode statistics, involuntary admissions under the Mental Health Act 1983, and the number of psychiatric beds in England 1996-2006[/B] The number of compulsory admissions to inpatient psychiatric care has increased dramatically but the number of NHS beds has fallen, and there has also been a significant increase in the number of patients admitted for alcohol and drug problems, finds a study published today on bmj.com. http://www.physorg.com/news142834335.html Medicine & Health Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:12:15 EST news142834335 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new study finds no evidence that gun shows lead to substantial increases in either gun-related homicides or suicides. http://www.physorg.com/news142097706.html Other Sciences Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:35:06 EST news142097706 Knowing how precisely a high school freshman can estimate the number of objects in a group gives you a good idea how well he has done in math as far back as kindergarten, researchers at The Johns Hopkins University found. http://www.physorg.com/news140013359.html Medicine & Health Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:35:59 EST news140013359