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. When the Drake Oil Well in Titusville, Pennsylvania began seeping crude oil 150 years ago, humanity allowed itself to become engulfed in the ecology of oil, according to a Penn State environmental historian. Now in the midst of an energy transition, the U.S. and the world need to keep moving forward toward alternative methods of power generation. http://www.physorg.com/news153831532.html Space & Earth Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:59:39 EST news153831532 A new national survey conducted by the Harvard Opinion Research Program at the Harvard School of Public Health finds that the vast majority (93%) of Americans have heard or read about the recent ongoing recall of peanut products. Among those who are aware of the recall, about six in ten (61%) say they have taken one or more precautions to reduce their risk of getting sick from contaminated peanut products. Specifically, about one in four say they have checked ingredient lists on foods in the grocery store to make sure they know which products contain peanuts (27%), thrown away foods in their home that they think might be on the recall list (25%), stopped ordering foods containing peanuts in restaurants (22%), and stopped eating those foods they heard were in the recall (28%), while 15% say they have stopped eating all foods containing peanuts. http://www.physorg.com/news153756551.html Medicine & Health Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:09:44 EST news153756551 (PhysOrg.com) -- For the second time in two years, a nationwide outbreak of salmonellosis has been tied to peanut products. This time, over 570 people have been sickened and over 1700 products have been taken off supermarket shelves so far, in what is now the largest food-related recall in the country`s history. http://www.physorg.com/news153597262.html Medicine & Health Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:55:37 EST news153597262 Consumers must remain vigilant about tossing salmonella-tainted peanut products found during a recent outbreak, food safety experts said. A few more people get sick every week. More than 400 products have been recalled, and more products are recalled daily. And last week, the Georgia factory blamed for the outbreak recalled every product made since January 2007, so more items may be pulled from store shelves in coming weeks. http://www.physorg.com/news152808843.html Medicine & Health Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:54:36 EST news152808843 Rapid, easy and affordable tests for cancer and avian flu and other infectious diseases move a step closer to patients as DYAMED Biotech Pte Ltd licenses a unique all-in-one automated diagnostic system called MicroKit from Singapore's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN). http://www.physorg.com/news152793212.html Chemistry Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:33:59 EST news152793212 Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University associate research scientist Melha Mellata, a member of professor Roy Curtiss' team, is leading a USDA funded project to develop a vaccine against a leading poultry disease called avian pathogenic E. coli (APEC). http://www.physorg.com/news152272719.html Biology Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:02:16 EST news152272719 A study conducted by Université de Montréal researchers on downstream and upstream water from the Montreal wastewater treatment plant has revealed the presence of chemotherapy products and certain hypertension and cholesterol medications. http://www.physorg.com/news152196608.html Space & Earth Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:50:18 EST news152196608 Someone who has momentarily lost confidence in her intelligence is more likely to purchase a pen than a candy bar, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. The pen helps restore her belief in herself as an intelligent person. http://www.physorg.com/news152194618.html Other Sciences Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:19:12 EST news152194618 (PhysOrg.com) -- The same principles that a Biodesign Institute research team has successfully applied to remove harmful contaminants from the environment may one day allow people to clean up the gunk from their bodies -and reverse the effects of aging. The Biodesign Institute, along with partner, the Methuselah Foundation, is working to vanquish age-related disease by making old cells feel younger. http://www.physorg.com/news151344228.html Biology Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:03:48 EST news151344228 The ability of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate the safety of dietary supplements using nanomaterials is severely limited by lack of information, lack of resources and the agency's lack of statutory authority in certain critical areas, according to a new expert report released by the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN). http://www.physorg.com/news151160447.html Nanotechnology Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:00:47 EST news151160447 A team of Carnegie Mellon University engineers led by Levent Burak Kara and Kenji Shimada have developed software that will let engineers design new products by simply sketching their ideas on a tablet computer. http://www.physorg.com/news151080012.html Technology Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:40:12 EST news151080012 The enzyme machine that translates a cell's DNA code into the proteins of life is nothing if not an editorial perfectionist. http://www.physorg.com/news150559493.html Biology Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:04:53 EST news150559493 Despite recent saber-rattling between state and federal officials, anew California law took effect Thursday that effectively bans the sale of toys and other children's products containing phthalates. http://www.physorg.com/news150097843.html Medicine & Health Fri, 02 Jan 2009 05:50:43 EST news150097843 Researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have taken a major step forward in the field of metabolic engineering, successfully using the bacterium Escherichia coli to synthesize a class of natural products known bacterial aromatic polyketides, which include important antibiotic and anticancer drugs. http://www.physorg.com/news149179802.html Biology Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:50:02 EST news149179802 Many products have numbers attached: megapixels for cameras, wattage ratings for stereos, cotton counts for sheets. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research shows that consumers are heavily influenced by quantitative specifications, even meaningless ones. http://www.physorg.com/news148563866.html Other Sciences Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:44:26 EST news148563866 (PhysOrg.com) -- Is there someone on your gift list who could use a little help opening the jar of candied cherries for the holiday fruitcake? Or needs to raise the thermostat without getting up from the recliner? http://www.physorg.com/news148067269.html Medicine & Health Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:47:49 EST news148067269 (PhysOrg.com) -- Intel and Hitachi announced that they are joining forces to produce Enterprise-grade SSDs that will incorporate Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Fiber Channel (FC) interfaces. Both firms plan the first products, produced under the agreement, to be available in 2010. http://www.physorg.com/news147451071.html Technology Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:37:51 EST news147451071 Elpida Memory, Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), today announced that it has completed development of a 50nm process DDR3 SDRAM. The new DRAM product features the lowest power consumption in the industry, 2.5Gbps ultra high speed and a 1.2V low voltage operation based on the industry's smallest chip size. http://www.physorg.com/news146930232.html Technology Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:57:12 EST news146930232 Globally every year, obese people waste billions of pounds on food products that 'imply' that they aid weight loss, but are totally ineffective, says a nutritional expert on bmj.com today. http://www.physorg.com/news146898376.html Medicine & Health Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:06:16 EST news146898376 Although Americans are becoming increasingly aware of toxic chemical exposure from everyday household products like bisphenol A in some baby bottles and lead in some toys, women do not readily connect typical household products with personal chemical exposure and related adverse health effects, according to research from the December issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. http://www.physorg.com/news146473095.html Medicine & Health Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:58:15 EST news146473095 In an attempt to reinvent itself as a "responsible corporate citizen," tobacco company Philip Morris supports regulation of tobacco products by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. http://www.physorg.com/news145708306.html Other Sciences Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:31:46 EST news145708306 Elementary school students will eat more whole grains when healthier bread products are gradually introduced into their school lunches, a new University of Minnesota study shows. http://www.physorg.com/news145280372.html Medicine & Health Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:39:32 EST news145280372 In the near future it will be possible to customise the food we eat to individual needs, based on the genetic profile of the individual. Dutch researcher Amber Ronteltap suggests that the consumer market is not yet ready for this so-called nutrigenomics. Ronteltap concludes that many obstacles must be overcome before products based on nutrigenomics become a reality. http://www.physorg.com/news145017719.html Other Sciences Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:41:59 EST news145017719 A new study published in the September/October issue of the journal Marketing Science reveals the world's most innovative countries, with Japan and the Nordic countries earning top spots and the United States finishing in sixth. http://www.physorg.com/news144681018.html Other Sciences Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:10:18 EST news144681018 A study has found that the risks of a premature birth quadruple if flaxseed oil is consumed in the last two trimesters of pregnancy. The research was conducted by Professor Anick Bérard of the Université de Montréal's Faculty of Pharmacy and the Sainte-Justine Hospital Research Center and Master's student Krystel Moussally. http://www.physorg.com/news144331301.html Medicine & Health Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:01:41 EST news144331301 We've all met know-it-alls -people who think they know more than they actually do. If they're talking about products, like wine or motorcycles, they might actually know as much as they think. But when it comes to health plans, social policy, or nutrition, they might not, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. http://www.physorg.com/news143198727.html Other Sciences Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:25:27 EST news143198727 When consumers hold private information about their tastes, companies can use nonlinear pricing as a screening mechanism to induce different types of customers to buy different products. Screening incentives may lead a firm to make a small version of its product "too small" in order to collect more profit from consumers who purchase the larger version. A study in the RAND Journal of Economics shows that firms distort the products. http://www.physorg.com/news142170211.html Other Sciences Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:43:31 EST news142170211 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new type of oven quickly produces foods that appear and taste identical to those that were fried, but, unlike traditional fryers, uses no additional oil. The "radiant fryer" could create products with 50 percent less oil, less fat and fewer calories than conventional fryers, said Purdue University food scientist and inventor Kevin Keener. http://www.physorg.com/news140799665.html Other Sciences Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:01:05 EST news140799665 Boston, MA--Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found that one fifth of both U.S.-manufactured and Indian-manufactured Ayurvedic medicines purchased via the Internet contain lead, mercury or arsenic. These findings appear in the August 27th issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). http://www.physorg.com/news138988642.html Medicine & Health Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:57:22 EST news138988642 From frizzy perms to over-bleached waves, "bad hair days" could soon become a less frequent occurrence. Chemists report the first detailed microscopic analysis of what happens to individual hair fibers when they interact with each other, an advance in knowledge key to the development of improved shampoos, conditioners, and other products for repairing damaged hair, the researchers say. They presented the study here today at the American Chemical Society's 236th National Meeting. http://www.physorg.com/news138185194.html Chemistry Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:46:34 EST news138185194