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) -- Sixty-five world leaders have said they will attend the Copenhagen climate summit in December, and several more have responded positively to invitations, Danish officials said Sunday. http://www.physorg.com/news178121802.html Space & Earth Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:50:03 EST news178121802 Treatment that includes medication plus a structured training program for parents reduces serious behavioral problems in children with autism and related conditions, according to a study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). The study, which was part of the NIMH Research Units on Pediatric Psychopharmacology (RUPP) Autism Network, was published in the December 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. http://www.physorg.com/news177960900.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:10:02 EST news177960900 (AP) -- The battle against global warming could be helped if the world slowed population growth by making free condoms and family planning advice more widely available, the U.N. Population Fund said Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news177759813.html Space & Earth Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:44:18 EST news177759813 (PhysOrg.com) -- As part of its effort to speed up the Web, Google is experimenting with SPDY, a new application layer protocol, that it hopes will speed up the conversation between browsers and Web servers and enable Web pages to download up to twice as fast. http://www.physorg.com/news177581905.html Technology Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:19:06 EST news177581905 (AP) -- E-mail has taken a full circle. Over the years, Web-based e-mail services have gotten much better, sporting many features once available only with the e-mail programs that reside on the computer desktop. http://www.physorg.com/news177165447.html Technology Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:00:02 EST news177165447 A telemedicine system based on a modified version of the Bluetooth wireless protocol can transfer patient data, such as medical images from patient to the healthcare provider's mobile device for patient assessment almost four times as fast as conventional Bluetooth and without the intermittent connectivity problems, according to a paper in the forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics. http://www.physorg.com/news176402349.html Technology Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:00:01 EST news176402349 (AP) -- Just weeks before an international conference on climate change, the United Nations signaled it was scaling back expectations of reaching agreement on a new treaty to slow global warning. http://www.physorg.com/news175841625.html Space & Earth Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:20:02 EST news175841625 (PhysOrg.com) -- Following news reports that 65,000 modems and wireless routers used by Time Warner Cable customers are vulnerable to attack by hackers, a Columbia University expert on computer security and privacy has found that software flaws in embedded devices like routers, webcams and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone adapters are far more widespread than previously known. http://www.physorg.com/news175788913.html Technology Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:50:01 EST news175788913 (AP) -- Denmark urged the European Union, the United States and other rich countries to commit to financing for a new climate change deal, saying Friday that billions of dollars are needed. http://www.physorg.com/news175525105.html Space & Earth Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:30:01 EST news175525105 The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said Friday it would approve biofuels for commercial flights by 2010 in a bid to drastically reduce the industry's carbon footprint. http://www.physorg.com/news175525268.html Technology Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:20:01 EST news175525268 (AP) -- China is building its cyberwarfare capabilities and appears to be using the growing technical abilities to collect U.S. intelligence through a sophisticated and long-term computer attack campaign, according to an independent report. http://www.physorg.com/news175450908.html Technology Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:23:47 EST news175450908 Whether to tweak, bolster or bury the Kyoto Protocol -- the only binding global agreement for curbing greenhouse gases -- has become a red-hot issue as UN negotiators in Bangkok try to lay the groundwork for a successor treaty. http://www.physorg.com/news174143239.html Space & Earth Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:20:01 EST news174143239 Government agencies and other organizations planning to use WiMAX -- Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access -networks can get technical advice on improving the security of their systems from a draft computer security guide prepared by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. http://www.physorg.com/news174134025.html Technology Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:34:09 EST news174134025 Radio frequency identification (RFID) systems are widely used for applications that include inventory management, package tracking, toll collection, passport identification and airport luggage security. More recently, these systems have found their way into medical environments to track patients, equipment assets and staff members. http://www.physorg.com/news174044365.html Technology Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:43:50 EST news174044365 Motorola announced today that it has successfully deployed a Time Division Duplex Long-Term Evolution (TD-LTE) network in the streets of Geneva to support China Mobile Communications Corporation`s presence at the Geneva PALEXPO during ITU Telecom World 2009. http://www.physorg.com/news173956977.html Technology Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:40:01 EST news173956977 Changes appear to be in store this week for the low profile but powerful body that administers the Web. http://www.physorg.com/news173295776.html Technology Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:43:40 EST news173295776 Greenhouse gas emissions have fallen thanks to the global downturn, handing the world a chance to move away from high-carbon growth, a report said Monday, citing an International Energy Agency study. http://www.physorg.com/news172744208.html Space & Earth Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:40:05 EST news172744208 The World Meteorological Organisation said Wednesday that the ozone hole is expected to be smaller in 2009 than a year ago. http://www.physorg.com/news172311361.html Space & Earth Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:18:41 EST news172311361 Motorola today revealed its next generation encoding platform. This high-performance video processing platform supports both MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 standard-definition (SD) and high-definition (HD) encoding and transcoding and has been designed to meet future processing demands of both 1080P/50Hz and 1080P/60Hz resolutions using the MPEG-4 format. http://www.physorg.com/news171873804.html Technology Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:00:02 EST news171873804 (AP) -- Some computer viruses have a crude but scary ability to spy on people by logging every keystroke they type. Now hackers and potentially law enforcement have another weapon: a virus that can eavesdrop on voice conversations that go over computers instead of a regular phone line. http://www.physorg.com/news171131038.html Technology Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:00:03 EST news171131038 In the paper, The Boundless Carbon Cycle, published in the September issue of Nature Geoscience, scientists from the University of Vienna, Uppsala University in Sweden, University of Antwerp, and the U.S. based Stroud Water Research Center argue that current international strategies to mitigate manmade carbon emissions and address climate change have overlooked a critical player - inland waters. http://www.physorg.com/news171050510.html Space & Earth Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:10:06 EST news171050510 (PhysOrg.com) -- What will the weather be like over the next few hours on the A3 between Nuremberg and Würzburg in Germany? Could fog be a problem? A new system will enable automakers to offer their customers additional services - such as weather information or details of vacant parking spaces. http://www.physorg.com/news171040497.html Technology Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:20:01 EST news171040497 (AP) -- As nations negotiate tough decisions on cutting greenhouse gases, the United Nations is holding a separate conference on coping with more floods, droughts and other effects of climate change already assured. http://www.physorg.com/news170833414.html Space & Earth Sun, 30 Aug 2009 07:10:01 EST news170833414 University of California, San Diego computer scientists have created software that they hope will lead to data centers that logically function as single, plug-and-play networks that will scale to the massive scale of modern data center networks. The software system -- PortLand -- is a fault-tolerant, layer 2 data center network fabric capable of scaling to 100,000 nodes and beyond. http://www.physorg.com/news169753059.html Technology Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:38:47 EST news169753059 A clinical study carried out at Hospital de la Timone in Marseille, France, has demonstrated that a standardized management protocol for patients with infective endocarditis can dramatically reduce mortality rates. http://www.physorg.com/news168866975.html Medicine & Health Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:00:01 EST news168866975 (PhysOrg.com) -- Furious competition between social networking sites is compromising the protection of users' data, a Cambridge University study has concluded. http://www.physorg.com/news167400726.html Technology Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:30:04 EST news167400726 (PhysOrg.com) -- Dartmouth researchers who were pioneers in Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) - a system that secures and authenticates computer communications - are now playing leading roles establishing Internet standards and guidelines for security. http://www.physorg.com/news166192419.html Technology Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:34:14 EST news166192419 The University of Colorado at Boulder is working with NASA to develop a new communications technology now being tested on the International Space Station, which will extend Earth's Internet into outer space and across the solar system. http://www.physorg.com/news166107555.html Space & Earth Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:59:55 EST news166107555 Catalan scientists have shown that using mud from waste water treatment plants as a partial alternative fuel can enable cement factories to reduce their CO2 emissions and comply with the Kyoto Protocol, as well as posing no risk to human health and being profitable. These are the results of an environmental impact assessment. http://www.physorg.com/news164977441.html Space & Earth Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:30:01 EST news164977441 As President Barack Obama calls for streamlining heath care by fully converting to electronic medical records and as Congress prepares to debate issues of patient privacy, one question has largely gone unasked: What do patients want? http://www.physorg.com/news161871615.html Medicine & Health Mon, 18 May 2009 13:20:41 EST news161871615