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. Luxury goods are supposed to be expensive because of their quality: A sip of fine wine or the comforting feel of designer clothing should justify the price. http://www.physorg.com/news178912794.html Other Sciences Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:20:06 EST news178912794 (AP) -- Selling a home without a real estate agent can save thousands of dollars in commission fees, but it can also be a painstaking, confusing task. http://www.physorg.com/news177945503.html Technology Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:40:09 EST news177945503 (PhysOrg.com) -- Foreclosed homes and unsustainable growth can wreck the tax base of local governments. That`s the warning being issued by Auburn University`s Center for Governmental Services following its study of newly released U.S. Census Bureau data on housing unit growth. http://www.physorg.com/news173456534.html Other Sciences Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:20:01 EST news173456534 (AP) -- LendingTree, which allows prospective borrowers to get quick offers from multiple lenders, claims Google is about to get into the same business. http://www.physorg.com/news170573590.html Technology Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:00:01 EST news170573590 LSU Professor and Chair of Environmental Sciences Nina Lam and Professor and Louisiana Real Estate Commission Chair Kelley Pace, along with colleagues from LSU, Tulane University and Texas State University, will publish the results of a study analyzing business return to New Orleans post-Katrina in a Public Library of Science publication, PLoS ONE, on Wednesday, Aug. 26. http://www.physorg.com/news170494753.html Other Sciences Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:50:01 EST news170494753 SmartZip has built a free online tool for prospective home buyers and real estate investors eager to mine gems from the rubble of the US foreclosure avalanche. http://www.physorg.com/news169892877.html Technology Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:29:12 EST news169892877 In the colorful, centuries-long history of house hunting, when have so many buyers come to the table knowing so much about prices, neighborhoods and school test scores? http://www.physorg.com/news168849498.html Technology Sat, 08 Aug 2009 22:40:01 EST news168849498 (AP) -- A northern New Jersey man is charged with stealing a prime piece of Internet real estate and reselling it to basketball player Mark Madsen in one of the nation's first prosecutions of a suspected domain name thief. http://www.physorg.com/news168526197.html Technology Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:00:03 EST news168526197 (PhysOrg.com) -- Computer graphics have come a long way since the birth of Atari Games over 30 years ago. Today, computer graphics seem very real and some day researchers will pull graphics out of your television or computer display and integrate them into real-world environments. http://www.physorg.com/news166186470.html Technology Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:55:01 EST news166186470 (PhysOrg.com) -- Do friends wear the same style of shoe or see the same movies because they have similar tastes, which is why they became friends in the first place? Or once a friendship is established, do individuals influence each other to adopt like behaviors? http://www.physorg.com/news165772154.html Technology Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:50:53 EST news165772154 Proponents of a flat rate income tax often point to Russia's 2001 switch to a 13 percent flat tax as nothing short of an economic miracle. http://www.physorg.com/news164423226.html Other Sciences Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:07:27 EST news164423226 (AP) -- Alicia Istanbul woke up one recent Wednesday to find herself locked out of the Facebook account she opened in 2007, one Facebook suddenly deemed fake. http://www.physorg.com/news161869663.html Technology Mon, 18 May 2009 12:48:03 EST news161869663 (AP) -- When you sign up for Facebook or Twitter, you expect to get a stream of random messages from the people that make up your virtual social network - but pitches on homes for sale? http://www.physorg.com/news159346949.html Technology Sun, 19 Apr 2009 08:02:56 EST news159346949 (PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers working on some of the most fundamental issues facing the future internet paradigm have developed - in their spare time, no less - a mobile platform that brings some of the most powerful and compelling Web 2.0 services to the real, mobile world. `Engineers like to play with toys too,` says Daniele Miorandi, coordinator of the BIONETS project, explaining why their team developed its U-Hopper platform, an `opportunistic` communication platform for mobile phones. http://www.physorg.com/news156098957.html Technology Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:52:43 EST news156098957 New research suggests that a person's appearance may play a role in whether they are deemed trustworthy by financial lenders. The study is summarized in a working paper by Jefferson Duarte at Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Management and Stephan Siegel and Lance Young, both of the University of Washington. http://www.physorg.com/news156096035.html Other Sciences Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:01:25 EST news156096035 Children's moral behavior and attitudes in the real world largely carry over to the virtual world of computers, the Internet, video games and cell phones. Interestingly, there are marked gender and race differences in the way children rate morally questionable virtual behaviors, according to Professor Linda Jackson and her team from Michigan State University in the US. Their research is the first systematic investigation of the effects of gender and race on children's beliefs about moral behavior, both in the virtual world and the real world, and the relationship between the two. The study was published online in Springer's journal, Sex Roles. http://www.physorg.com/news155220473.html Medicine & Health Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:48:24 EST news155220473 (PhysOrg.com) -- When water transforms into steam, or magnetized iron changes to demagnetized iron, Katsushi Hashimoto explains to PhysOrg.com, a phase transition is taking place: `Classical phase transitions…often share many fundamental characteristics near the critical point. Quantum phase transitions also show universal critical behaviors, which are affected not only by temperature but also by quantum mechanics.` http://www.physorg.com/news150988279.html Physics Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:11:19 EST news150988279 Interracial and interethnic interactions can often be awkward and stressful for members of both majority and minority groups. People bring certain expectations to their interactions with members of different groups -they often expect that these interactions will be awkward and less successful in establishing positive, long-lasting relationships than interactions with members of one's own racial or ethnic group. These expectations can cause people to interpret the vague comments and behaviors of others more negatively in intergroup situations, further confirming their negative perceptions of these interactions. http://www.physorg.com/news148736501.html Medicine & Health Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:41:41 EST news148736501 A breakthrough technique that allows scientists to view individually-labeled tumor cells as they move about in real time in a live mouse may enable scientists to develop microenvironment-specific drugs against cancer, researchers report at the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) 48th Annual Meeting, Dec. 13-17, 2008 in San Francisco. http://www.physorg.com/news148571378.html Medicine & Health Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:49:38 EST news148571378 A novel x-ray technique allowing the observation of molecular motion on a time scale never reached before has been developed by a team of researchers from EPFL and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland. Results of the research led by Professor Majed Chergui, head of EPFL's laboratory of Ultrafast Spectroscopy in collaboration with the FEMTO group at PSI appear online December 11 in the journal Science. http://www.physorg.com/news148315504.html Chemistry Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:45:04 EST news148315504 Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute have solved one of biology's neatest little tricks: they have discovered how a cell's outer membrane pinches a little pouch from itself to bring molecules outside the cell inside -without making holes that leak fluid from either side of the membrane. http://www.physorg.com/news148224743.html Chemistry Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:32:23 EST news148224743 (PhysOrg.com) -- Stunt pilots have raced against computer-generated opponents for the first time - in a contest that combines the real and the 'virtual' at 250 miles per hour. http://www.physorg.com/news143298579.html Technology Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:09:39 EST news143298579 The level of nutrients in soil determines how many different kinds of plants and trees can thrive in an ecosystem, according to new research published by biologists and mathematicians today (10 September) in Nature. http://www.physorg.com/news140269006.html Other Sciences Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:36:46 EST news140269006 (PhysOrg.com) -- An illusion that tricks people into believing a rubber hand belongs to them isn`t all in the mind, Oxford University researchers have found. They have observed a physical response as well, a finding that offers insight into conditions which affect a patient`s sense of self and body ownership, such as stroke, schizophrenia, autism, or eating disorders. http://www.physorg.com/news139061552.html Medicine & Health Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:12:32 EST news139061552 (PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have developed a series of very clever tools to break through the bottlenecks stalling the widespread adoption of virtual reality. But the compelling applications designed for the system are the real stars. http://www.physorg.com/news137945225.html Technology Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:07:05 EST news137945225 (PhysOrg.com) -- Critics often point to subprime mortgage lending - the funding of home loans to borrowers with less-than-perfect credit - as the culprit in the unsustainable boom in U.S. home prices that eventually derailed the real estate and mortgage markets. http://www.physorg.com/news136654317.html Other Sciences Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:31:57 EST news136654317 Due to privacy concerns, Google has been blurring the faces of people caught on Google Street View cameras. But rather than blurring people's faces and diminishing the reality of the scene, researchers have demonstrated a new way to automatically depersonalize the faces - by creating hybrids. http://www.physorg.com/news136642765.html Technology Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:19:25 EST news136642765 Why do humans cooperate in things as diverse as environment conservation or the creation of fairer societies, even when they don`t receive anything in exchange or, worst, they might even be penalized? http://www.physorg.com/news135580478.html Other Sciences Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:14:38 EST news135580478