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. Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo! joined an alliance Wednesday opposing the legal settlement which would allow Internet giant Google to digitize and sell millions of books. http://www.physorg.com/news170516583.html Technology Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:10:05 EST news170516583 Since the advent of the Human Genome Project an explosion of data has sent the science world scrambling. There is a growing demand to fine-tune genomic codes, which list the "ingredients for life," but do not adequately explain how those ingredients function. http://www.physorg.com/news170502444.html Chemistry Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:10:06 EST news170502444 German firms Solar Millennium AG and MAN Ferrostaal AG on Monday said they formed a joint venture to build up to three utility-scale plants in Southern California at a cost about $1 billion each. http://www.physorg.com/news169838636.html Technology Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:30:02 EST news169838636 Brown University scientists have taken the first steps toward mapping epigenetic variability in cells and tissues. Mapping the human epigenome, similar to the human genome project in the 1990s, could someday allow for quicker and more precise disease diagnoses and more targeted treatments of many chronic ailments. http://www.physorg.com/news169481370.html Medicine & Health Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:10:17 EST news169481370 (AP) -- Australia's prime minister promised Thursday to create 50,000 "green" jobs and apprenticeships to combat climate change and unemployment simultaneously. http://www.physorg.com/news168181207.html Space & Earth Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:20:07 EST news168181207 (PhysOrg.com) -- University of Queensland researchers are breaking new ground in rainforest regeneration. http://www.physorg.com/news167467141.html Space & Earth Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:40:04 EST news167467141 The EU's much delayed satellite navigation network project Galileo has been ill-prepared and badly managed, the European Court of Auditors charged Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news165499358.html Space & Earth Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:50:03 EST news165499358 Six years ago, scientists announced the completion of the Human Genome Project, a historic effort to decipher each of the 3 billion letters in the genetic instruction book for our species. A single anonymous male from Buffalo, N.Y. - code name RP11 - provided the bulk of the DNA used for the project. http://www.physorg.com/news164190171.html Medicine & Health Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:23:09 EST news164190171 (AP) -- The Obama administration is ordering a one-year moratorium on most road-building and other development on about 50 million acres of remote national forests. http://www.physorg.com/news162795495.html Space & Earth Fri, 29 May 2009 05:59:24 EST news162795495 (AP) -- The push to legalize medical marijuana in Illinois has taken a big step forward. http://www.physorg.com/news162707564.html Medicine & Health Thu, 28 May 2009 05:33:04 EST news162707564 (PhysOrg.com) -- The Project Whirlwind Computer collection -- a compilation of pioneering digital computing research conducted at MIT in the 1940s and 1950s -- has been transferred back to the Institute from the MITRE Corporation, and its contents are being opened to the public for the first time. http://www.physorg.com/news162485135.html Technology Mon, 25 May 2009 15:46:39 EST news162485135 (PhysOrg.com) -- UCLA scientists have discovered a variant of a gene called CACNA1G that may increase a child's risk of developing autism, particularly in boys. The journal Molecular Psychiatry publishes the findings in its May 19 advance online edition. http://www.physorg.com/news161974145.html Medicine & Health Tue, 19 May 2009 17:50:31 EST news161974145 (PhysOrg.com) -- The world's largest and longest-running volunteer computing project, SETI@home, celebrates its tenth anniversary this month with 140,000 participants and 235,000 computers powering the search for intelligent signals from space. http://www.physorg.com/news161966916.html Space & Earth Tue, 19 May 2009 15:51:43 EST news161966916 The organizers of the famed annual TED conferences on Wednesday began making the thought-provoking lectures by giants of technology, science and the arts available in dozens of languages. http://www.physorg.com/news161438622.html Technology Wed, 13 May 2009 13:04:05 EST news161438622 The largest and most ambitious tornado study in history will begin next week, as dozens of scientists deploy radars and other ground-based instruments across the Great Plains to gain a better understanding of these often-deadly weather events. http://www.physorg.com/news160728816.html Space & Earth Tue, 05 May 2009 07:54:24 EST news160728816 (PhysOrg.com) -- Construction begins this month on a cutting-edge physics laboratory in northern Minnesota, supported by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Congressman James Oberstar of Minnesota and Congressman Bill Foster of Illinois today are joining officials from the U.S. Department of Energy, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of Minnesota to break ground for NOvA, the world`s most advanced neutrino experiment. http://www.physorg.com/news160405383.html Physics Fri, 01 May 2009 14:04:04 EST news160405383 Google's settlement with US authors and publishers over its book scanning project still needs the green light from a US judge but it may first have to pass muster with the US Justice Department. http://www.physorg.com/news160239009.html Technology Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:50:36 EST news160239009 (PhysOrg.com) -- It is the most famous scientific equation in history, framed by Einstein more than a century ago. But what does e=mc˛ actually stand for? And how does it explain the relationship between energy, mass and the speed of light? http://www.physorg.com/news159636867.html Other Sciences Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:34:54 EST news159636867 (PhysOrg.com) -- Technology is struggling to meet demands for high-performance, specialised computing systems. A European consortium is responding with a new kind of reconfigurable chip that is both efficient and flexible. http://www.physorg.com/news159548117.html Technology Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:55:48 EST news159548117 (PhysOrg.com) -- Over the past 5 years, researchers have been exploring the use of nanoscale pores as nucleic acid sequencing tools. In theory, such pores should generate a unique response characteristic of each of the four nucleotide bases as a piece of DNA moves through the pore. http://www.physorg.com/news157378086.html Nanotechnology Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:14:12 EST news157378086 Researchers have taken a step forward in understanding the genetics of mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. http://www.physorg.com/news156762689.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:13:13 EST news156762689 Researchers today worry about the collapse of West Antarctic ice shelves and loss of the West Antarctic ice sheet, but little is known about the past movements of this ice. Now climatologists from Penn State and the University of Massachusetts have modeled the past 5 million years of the West Antarctic ice sheet and found the ice expanse changes rapidly and is most influenced by ocean temperatures near the continent. http://www.physorg.com/news156605513.html Space & Earth Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:33:47 EST news156605513 (PhysOrg.com) -- How does the human brain run itself without any software? Find that out, say European researchers, and a whole new field of neural computing will open up. A prototype 'brain on a chip' is already working. http://www.physorg.com/news156440026.html Technology Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:34:56 EST news156440026 South Florida has the second most populous Jewish community in America, after New York. Jewish people traditionally settled in South Florida for economic opportunities, for the climate, to join friends and family and to retire. Nonetheless, the once growing Jewish population of Broward County is now declining in numbers, according to a recent study conducted by University of Miami professor Dr. Ira M. Sheskin, from the department of Geography and Regional Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences and director of the Jewish Demography Project of the Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies. http://www.physorg.com/news155925817.html Other Sciences Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:44:11 EST news155925817 People are always looking for ways to make something less expensive and more environmentally friendly - and a team of researchers from North Carolina State University has figured out how to do both of those things at once when raising the large-scale buildings, such as parking garages, of the future. http://www.physorg.com/news155282307.html Technology Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:00:27 EST news155282307 The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) Corporation is pleased to announce that nine astronomical research organizations from three continents have signed the Founders' Agreement to construct and operate the 25-meter Giant Magellan Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory in the Andes Mountains of Chile. In the United States the participating institutions are the Carnegie Institution for Science, Harvard University, the Smithsonian Institution, Texas A& M University, the University of Arizona, and the University of Texas at Austin. The two Australian members of the Founders group are the Australian National University and Astronomy Australia Limited. Most recently, the South Korean government has approved participation in the GMT project, with the Korean Astronomy and Space Science Institute as the representative of the Korean astronomical community. http://www.physorg.com/news153145070.html Space & Earth Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:19:31 EST news153145070 (PhysOrg.com) -- On February 3, the Indian government will display a prototype of the Rs 500, a $10 laptop that will hopefully give more young people the opportunity to learn and help increase the country's school enrollment. http://www.physorg.com/news152541176.html Electronics Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:33:32 EST news152541176 Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) announced today the discovery of a new class of small RNAs. At the same time, they reported that their discovery suggests the presence of a strikingly novel biochemical pathway for RNA processing in which these and possibly other small RNAs are produced. The research, which is part of a multinational project called ENCODE, also provided information concerning the biological function of the new short RNA class. http://www.physorg.com/news152211180.html Biology Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:04:05 EST news152211180 (PhysOrg.com) -- Mobility is good. But it has created a logistical nightmare when people leave no forwarding address. A European project has risen to the challenge with a one-stop shop for finding Europeans on the move. http://www.physorg.com/news151593571.html Technology Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:20:02 EST news151593571 A 2000-year-old painted statue is being restored to her original glory by scientists from WMG at the University of Warwick, the University of Southampton, and the Herculaneum Conservation Project. http://www.physorg.com/news150994645.html Technology Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:57:25 EST news150994645