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. Difficult-to-treat asthma often may have more to do with patients who do not take their medication as instructed than ineffective medication, according to researchers in Northern Ireland. http://www.physorg.com/news175500957.html Medicine & Health Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:30:02 EST news175500957 Imagine yourself at the core of Jupiter, a planet 300 times the mass of Earth. At 35,000 degrees Fahrenheit, you and I might think it's hot in here, but to a physicist it's merely warm - warm dense matter, to be precise, stuff that hasn't quite undergone thermonuclear fusion yet. http://www.physorg.com/news174914869.html Physics Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:28:31 EST news174914869 (PhysOrg.com) -- Last Wednesday, the Ad Astra Rocket Company tested what is currently the most powerful plasma rocket in the world. As the Webster, Texas, company announced, the VASIMR VX-200 engine ran at 201 kilowatts in a vacuum chamber, passing the 200-kilowatt mark for the first time. The test also marks the first time that a small-scale prototype of the company's VASIMR (Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket) rocket engine has been demonstrated at full power. http://www.physorg.com/news174031552.html Space & Earth Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:07:36 EST news174031552 (PhysOrg.com) -- The U.S. ITER Project Office at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has awarded two contracts totaling $33.6 million for 8,270 km of niobium tin strand and 4,795 km of copper strand for the Toroidal Field Conductor, a major component of U.S. contributions to the ITER Project. ITER's Toroidal Field Magnets will fill the plasma volume (~1000 cubic meters) with a magnetic field roughly 100,000 times the Earth's magnetic field. http://www.physorg.com/news173980230.html Physics Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:10:16 EST news173980230 (AP) -- Panasonic Corp. and Sanyo Electric Co. must sell off a European plant that makes batteries to win EU antitrust approval for the $9 billion deal creating one of the world's biggest electronics makers, the EU said Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news173449763.html Technology Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:40:01 EST news173449763 Panasonic Corporation has developed a 50-inch Full HD 3D compatible plasma display panel (PDP) and high-precision active shutter glasses that enable the viewing of theater-quality, true-to-life 3D images in the living rooms. Aiming to bring Full HD 3D TVs to the market in 2010, the company steps up its efforts in developing the related technology. http://www.physorg.com/news173431116.html Technology Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:19:20 EST news173431116 (PhysOrg.com) -- Certain stars stream vast amounts of matter into space, creating some of the most beautiful objects in astronomers' telescopes. But while the astronomers can enjoy the beauty, they can't explain it. Adam Frank, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Rochester is hoping to change that. http://www.physorg.com/news173373454.html Space & Earth Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:30:01 EST news173373454 University of Central Florida Microbiology Professor Keith Ireton has uncovered a previously unknown mechanism that plays an important role in the spread of a deadly food-borne bacterium. http://www.physorg.com/news172768529.html Biology Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:30:02 EST news172768529 (PhysOrg.com) -- Studies of features in Jupiter`s spectacular and rapidly changing aurorae have given new insights into the complex electromagnetic interactions between the giant planet and two of its innermost moons. http://www.physorg.com/news172496043.html Space & Earth Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:35:24 EST news172496043 A powerful lightning storm in Saturn`s atmosphere that began in mid-January 2009 has become the Solar System`s longest continuously observed thunderstorm.  It broke the record duration of 7.5 months set by another thunderstorm observed on Saturn by NASA`s Cassini spacecraft between November 2007 and July 2008. http://www.physorg.com/news172217534.html Space & Earth Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:13:18 EST news172217534 Fusion is best known for powering the sun and stars. But researchers have long been studying ways to transform that power source into future "green" energy that can be used on Earth. A team of researchers from UC San Diego, MIT and UC Berkeley have received a $7 million research grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) that could lead us one step closer to making that a reality. The researchers will use the five-year grant for fundamental multiscale studies of plasma-material interactions. http://www.physorg.com/news172162391.html Physics Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:53:34 EST news172162391 (PhysOrg.com) -- Just as health-food manufacturers work on developing the best possible sodium substitutes for low-salt diets, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have acquired new knowledge on a promising sodium alternative of their own. Sodium-like tungsten ions could pepper -- and conveniently monitor -- the hot plasma soup inside fusion energy devices, potential sources of abundant, clean power. http://www.physorg.com/news171650049.html Physics Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:35:05 EST news171650049 (PhysOrg.com) -- New research at The University of Nottingham could help prevent the harmful blood clots associated with heart disease and stroke, the single greatest cause of disease-related death worldwide. http://www.physorg.com/news171552554.html Medicine & Health Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:30:39 EST news171552554 The world's top two makers of flat-panel televisions are stressing the energy-saving virtues of different display technologies in their race to dominate a huge global market. http://www.physorg.com/news171429400.html Electronics Sun, 06 Sep 2009 06:20:01 EST news171429400 According to Dutch researcher Hanneke Later-Nijland, it may be possible to shorten the duration of treatment for tuberculosis. Due to the long duration of treatment, not every patient sees it through. Partly because of this, tuberculosis is one of the most lethal diseases in developing countries. http://www.physorg.com/news171136864.html Medicine & Health Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:10:01 EST news171136864 Using one of the greatest sources of radiation energy created by man, University of Nevada, Reno researcher and faculty member Roberto Mancini is studying ultra-high temperature and non-equilibrium plasmas to mimic what happens to matter in accretion disks around black holes. http://www.physorg.com/news171125659.html Physics Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:54:54 EST news171125659 Magnetic reconnection could be the Universe's favorite way to make things explode. It operates anywhere magnetic fields pervade space--which is to say almost everywhere. On the sun magnetic reconnection causes solar flares as powerful as a billion atomic bombs. In Earth's atmosphere, it fuels magnetic storms and auroras. In laboratories, it can cause big problems in fusion reactors. It's ubiquitous. http://www.physorg.com/news170949564.html Physics Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:09:20 EST news170949564 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Warwick have found what could be the signal of ideal wave "surfing" conditions for individual particles within the massive turbulent ocean of the solar wind. The discovery could give a new insight into just how energy is dissipated in solar system sized plasmas such as the solar wind and could provide significant clues to scientists developing fusion power which relies on plasmas. http://www.physorg.com/news170947797.html Physics Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:30:59 EST news170947797 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are adapting the same methods used in fusion-energy research to create extremely thin plasma beams for a new class of "nanolithography" required to make future computer chips. http://www.physorg.com/news169825442.html Nanotechnology Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:44:45 EST news169825442 According to Dutch researcher Hanneke Later-Nijland, it may be possible to shorten the duration of treatment for tuberculosis. Due to the long duration of treatment, not every patient sees it through. Partly because of this, tuberculosis is one of the most lethal diseases in developing countries. http://www.physorg.com/news169739678.html Medicine & Health Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:20:01 EST news169739678 (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 Researchers in Israel and Kenya have shown that the contribution of variable degrees of immune suppression, either due to existing chronic infections such as parasitemias and/or nutrition, in different populations may influence and prolong the serological-diagnostic window period of HIV. However, the immunosuppression can be overcome, by in-vitro enhancement of antibody production (termed- Stimmunology). http://www.physorg.com/news167657467.html Medicine & Health Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:20:02 EST news167657467 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA is designing a mission to investigate one of the most fundamental and explosive physical processes in the universe - magnetic reconnection. Known as the Magnetospheric MultiScale (MMS) mission, it was approved for implementation on June 18, 2009 following a successful Preliminary Design Review in May 2009. http://www.physorg.com/news167401286.html Space & Earth Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:22:20 EST news167401286 (PhysOrg.com) -- UC San Diego scientists are using laser plasma-produced light sources to explore performance improvements of critical inspection tools for the semiconductor industry, which ultimately will enable industry to pursue even better and faster chips. While optical lithography is being pushed to its limits in the semiconductor industry, there is a growing concern whether metrology tools can keep pace for creating and inspecting the new generation of devices. http://www.physorg.com/news166804847.html Technology Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:41:23 EST news166804847 Pluronic surfactants are synthetic copolymers based on ethylene oxide and propylene oxide. It has been reported that a nonionic L-81, effectively inhibits absorption of dietary lipids from the intestine and secretion of VLDL and LDL from the liver. Although L-81 is a potent anti-obesity drug, its potential in alleviating obesity-induced insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes has not been fully explored. http://www.physorg.com/news166266885.html Medicine & Health Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:15:14 EST news166266885 Data published in the June issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease demonstrated that minimally-invasive biospectroscopy was able to identify changes in oxidative stress (OS) levels in blood plasma, which may prove to be a useful biomarker in the early detection of Alzheimer's disease. There is currently no accepted laboratory test for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease. http://www.physorg.com/news164376502.html Medicine & Health Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:46:21 EST news164376502 Though it looks like a tiny purple blowtorch, a pencil-sized plume of plasma on the tip of a small probe remains at room temperature as it swiftly dismantles tough bacterial colonies deep inside a human tooth. But it's not another futuristic product of George Lucas' imagination. It's the exciting work of USC School of Dentistry and Viterbi School of Engineering researchers looking for new ways to safely fight tenacious biofilm infections in patients - and it could revolutionize many facets of medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news163903949.html Physics Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:53:16 EST news163903949 Researchers at McGill University and the affiliated Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research at Montreal's Jewish General Hospital - along with colleagues at the University of Manitoba and the University of British Columbia - may have found a chink in the armour of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), the microorganism which causes AIDS. They have pinpointed the key cellular machinery co-opted by HIV-1 to hijack the human cell for its own benefit. Their study was published in May in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. http://www.physorg.com/news163864198.html Chemistry Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:50:20 EST news163864198 University of Leicester researchers have taken a step forward in helping to create a defence for earth's technologies -from the constant threat of space weather. http://www.physorg.com/news163244037.html Space & Earth Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:35:15 EST news163244037 The first artificial organ for liver patients that uses immortalized human liver cells, the Extracorporeal Liver Assist Device, or ELAD(R), is a bedside system that treats blood plasma, metabolizing toxins and synthesizing proteins just like a real liver does. http://www.physorg.com/news163163349.html Medicine & Health Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:11:49 EST news163163349