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. Sunspots, which rotate around the sun's surface, tell us a great deal about our own planet. Scientists rely on them, for instance, to measure the sun's rotation or to prepare long-range forecasts of the Earth's health. http://www.physorg.com/news177169609.html Space & Earth Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:50:01 EST news177169609 (PhysOrg.com) -- New observations solve longstanding mystery of tipped rotation. In addition to shedding light on how binary stars form, the explanation knocks down a possible challenge to Einstein's theory of relativity. http://www.physorg.com/news172409177.html Space & Earth Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:26:54 EST news172409177 (PhysOrg.com) -- Historically, crop rotation has worked to keep the western corn rootworm in check in Wisconsin. http://www.physorg.com/news172239429.html Biology Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:19:33 EST news172239429 (PhysOrg.com) -- The Chandler Wobble is a small variation in the rotation of the Earth on its axis. It has been known for some time that the phase of the Chandler Wobble jumped by 180 degrees in the 1920s, but a new study by scientists at the Russian Academy of Sciences has found that the same thing also happened in 1850 and 2005. But no one knows why. http://www.physorg.com/news171094752.html Physics Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:19:57 EST news171094752 Researchers have largely put to rest a long debate on the underlying mechanism that has caused periodic ice ages on Earth for the past 2.5 million years - they are ultimately linked to slight shifts in solar radiation caused by predictable changes in Earth's rotation and axis. http://www.physorg.com/news168791411.html Space & Earth Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:20:02 EST news168791411 Meditation has been practiced for centuries, as a way to calm the soul and bring about inner peace. According to a new study in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, there is now evidence that a specific method of meditation may temporarily boost our visuospatial abilities (for example, the ability to retain an image in visual memory for a long time). That is, the meditation allows practitioners to access a heightened state of visual-spatial awareness that lasts for a limited period of time. http://www.physorg.com/news160056314.html Medicine & Health Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:05:38 EST news160056314 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by UCLA planetary scientists and their colleagues in Germany overturns a longstanding scientific tenet and provides new insights into how convection controls much of what we observe in planets and stars. http://www.physorg.com/news151594906.html Physics Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:45:00 EST news151594906 (PhysOrg.com) -- XMM-Newton has caught the fading glow of a tiny celestial object, revealing its rotation rate for the first time. The new information confirms this particular object as one of an extremely rare class of stellar zombie - each one the dead heart of a star that refuses to die. http://www.physorg.com/news151064499.html Space & Earth Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:21:39 EST news151064499 Men consistently outperform women on spatial tasks, including mental rotation, which is the ability to identify how a 3-D object would appear if rotated in space. Now, a University of Iowa study shows a connection between this sex-linked ability and the structure of the parietal lobe, the brain region that controls this type of skill. http://www.physorg.com/news148740976.html Medicine & Health Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:56:16 EST news148740976 The increasing popularity of reduced tillage on crops has not only been an important development in combating soil erosion, but it has also been associated with increasing organic material and producing high crop yields. http://www.physorg.com/news145531536.html Biology Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:25:36 EST news145531536 A plot of land on the campus of Auburn University shows that 110 years of sustainable farming practices can produce similar cotton crops to those using other methods. http://www.physorg.com/news141917212.html Biology Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:26:52 EST news141917212