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) -- Online video site Joost is shopping itself around to different cable TV operators. http://www.physorg.com/news160070365.html Technology Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:59:53 EST news160070365 Swedish telecom supplier Tele2 said Monday it will delete information allowing their customers to be identified, a move police argue could make the hunt for Internet pirates "impossible." http://www.physorg.com/news160066859.html Technology Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:01:22 EST news160066859 If you tend to forget or neglect to move photo treasures from your digital camera to your computer, an Eye-Fi card should interest you. This clever photo memory card handles that meddlesome task for you -- and now it does the same for video too. http://www.physorg.com/news159647275.html Electronics Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:28:29 EST news159647275 A volcanic eruption over the weekend has taken a toll on the wildlife of the ecologically-fragile Galapagos Islands, causing the deaths of numerous fish and various sea lions, said officials on Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news159127819.html Biology Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:10:39 EST news159127819 By combining nanoparticles with a scorpion venom compound already being investigated for treating brain cancer, University of Washington researchers found they could cut the spread of cancerous cells by 98 percent, compared to 45 percent for the scorpion venom alone. http://www.physorg.com/news159108900.html Nanotechnology Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:56:10 EST news159108900 You turn on your computer and try to log onto your favorite sites. Nothing happens. A message at the bottom of your screen tells you your computer is trying to connect, and trying and trying. http://www.physorg.com/news159012239.html Technology Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:04:42 EST news159012239 (PhysOrg.com) -- When Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) first appeared in 2003, international cooperation helped contain the virulent coronavirus, which caused respiratory illness in more than 8,000 people and killed almost 10 percent of them. Better understanding of such viruses will help control similar diseases when they strike again. http://www.physorg.com/news158947206.html Medicine & Health Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:00:32 EST news158947206 (AP) -- Inspiration comes in many forms, and in the case of James Everingham, it appeared as a pair of knockoff Christian Dior shoes. http://www.physorg.com/news158777531.html Technology Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:14:17 EST news158777531 (AP) -- Lance Armstrong was minutes away from surgery, but still took time to post a photo of himself in his hospital bed. http://www.physorg.com/news157311530.html Technology Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:39:05 EST news157311530 (AP) -- Former Rocky Mountain News staffers plan to start an online newspaper if they can get 50,000 paying subscribers by April 23. http://www.physorg.com/news156442110.html Technology Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:08:56 EST news156442110 I recently searched several doctor rating Web sites to see whether other people like my OB-GYN as much as I do. http://www.physorg.com/news156164083.html Medicine & Health Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:55:31 EST news156164083 (AP) -- EBay Inc. has been struggling to improve its online marketplace, and the company acknowledged Wednesday that it still has a long way to go. But eBay also highlighted the strength of its PayPal unit, predicting its business will double in size by 2011. http://www.physorg.com/news156062573.html Technology Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:43:30 EST news156062573 John McCain took to the Senate floor Monday and talked about twittering. For the increasingly popular networking tool, it was either a moment that marked the technology's full-bore entry into the cultural mainstream -- or an undeniable sign that Twitter is now about as hip as Pac-man. http://www.physorg.com/news155481820.html Technology Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:24:19 EST news155481820 With four children under the age of 5, James Currier had lots of questions about sniffles, rashes and fevers. One late night, while holding a sick child in his lap, he tried searching for answers online. http://www.physorg.com/news155140329.html Technology Sun, 01 Mar 2009 14:32:55 EST news155140329 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Michigan simulated an off-the-charts earthquake in a laboratory to test their new technique for bracing high-rise concrete buildings. Their technique passed the test, withstanding more movement than an earthquake would typically demand. http://www.physorg.com/news154888577.html Technology Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:37:01 EST news154888577 This is your brain. This is your brain on Facebook. http://www.physorg.com/news154807389.html Medicine & Health Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:03:42 EST news154807389 (PhysOrg.com) -- Small robots the size of riding mowers could prepare a safe landing site for NASA's Moon outpost, according to a NASA-sponsored study prepared by Astrobotic Technology Inc. with technical assistance from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute. http://www.physorg.com/news154790420.html Space & Earth Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:20:55 EST news154790420 We all love to waste time at work checking out a YouTube video or updating our Facebook profiles, but if you can't control yourself, there's keepmeout.com, a free service that lets you set limits on your Web browsing. http://www.physorg.com/news154199201.html Technology Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:07:21 EST news154199201 It's called "25 Random Things About Me." It lives on Facebook, the popular social-networking Web site. It's a list you fill with 25 items of personal information, ranging from the trivial to the intimate. http://www.physorg.com/news154015374.html Technology Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:03:30 EST news154015374 If you think you know what science is and how science works, think again. A new University of California, Berkeley, Web site called "Understanding Science" (http://undsci.berkeley.edu/) paints an entirely new picture of what science is and how science is done, showing it to be a dynamic and creative process rather than the linear - and frequently boring - process depicted in most textbooks. http://www.physorg.com/news153760626.html Other Sciences Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:17:37 EST news153760626 (PhysOrg.com) -- Music Professor Jason Freeman created Piano Etudes, a Web-based application that allows audiences to participate in the composition process. http://www.physorg.com/news153595977.html Technology Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:33:19 EST news153595977 Two molecular biologists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have uncovered important new details about how a gene mutation causes a cellular editing error that results in a devastating disease called pontocerebellar hypoplasia (PCH). The new findings were published online, ahead of print, on January 25th in the journal Nature Structural and Molecular Biology. http://www.physorg.com/news152373171.html Biology Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:55:59 EST news152373171 (PhysOrg.com) -- After five groundbreaking years exploring the Red Planet, the communications engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory pretty much know what they are getting when another downlink from Spirit or Opportunity arrives. They know that with a typical transmission comes about 10 megabits of engineering data, another 4 megabits of science data, and around 26 megabits of images. They also realize that after the information is amassed and analyzed by the rovers' science teams that the most unique, scientifically exciting of that compiled data will be released via peer-reviewed papers, articles, science briefings and press releases. http://www.physorg.com/news151259758.html Space & Earth Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:35:58 EST news151259758 (PhysOrg.com) -- A January 11, 2009 article in the London Times (on-line version) entitled, Revealed: The Environmental Impact of Google Searches quoted Harvard Physicist, Alex Wissner-Gross that "two Google searches generate the same carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle for a cup of tea." As one might expect, the Google Team went into overdrive to correct the perception that Googlers are energy hogs. http://www.physorg.com/news151162640.html Space & Earth Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:37:20 EST news151162640 (PhysOrg.com) -- If you think you know what science is and how science works, think again. A new University of California, Berkeley, Web site called "Understanding Science" paints an entirely new picture of what science is and how science is done, showing it to be a dynamic and creative process rather than the linear - and frequently boring - process depicted in most textbooks. http://www.physorg.com/news150730593.html Other Sciences Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:36:33 EST news150730593 In a pair of related studies released by Seattle Children's Research Institute and published in the January 2009 issue of Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine, researchers found that 54 percent of adolescents frequently discuss high-risk activities including sexual behavior, substance abuse or violence using MySpace, the popular social networking Web site (SNS). The studies, Adolescent Display of Health Risk Behaviors on MySpace, and Reducing At-Risk Adolescents' Display of Risk Behavior on a Social Networking Web Site, were led by research fellow Megan A. Moreno, MD, MPH, MSEd, and Dimitri Christakis, MD, MPH, of the Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development at Seattle Children's Research Institute, and the University of Washington. http://www.physorg.com/news150447571.html Medicine & Health Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:59:31 EST news150447571 Online, the virtual "nurse-in" to protest Facebook's ban on breast-feeding photos took off, with hundreds joining a group that crept toward 70,000 members Saturday evening. http://www.physorg.com/news149840031.html Technology Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:13:51 EST news149840031 An international research team led by Tim Nilsen, Ph.D., a professor of medicine and biochemistry and the director of the School of Medicine's Center for RNA Molecular Biology, has discovered an unexpected mechanism governing alternative splicing, the process by which single genes produce different proteins in different situations. The new mechanism suggests that curing the more than half of genetic diseases that are caused by mutations in the genetic code that in turn create mistakes in alternative splicing may be considerably more complicated than biomedical researchers have previously assumed. Those diseases include a large number of cancers and many neurodegenerative diseases. http://www.physorg.com/news149363159.html Biology Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:45:59 EST news149363159 (PhysOrg.com) -- The copying of DNA's master instructions into messenger molecules of RNA, a process known as DNA transcription, has always been thought to be a unidirectional process whereby a copying machine starts and moves in one direction. But in work that represents a fundamental shift in scientists' understanding of the phenomenon, MIT researchers have found evidence that two DNA copying machines frequently start from the same site and move in different directions. http://www.physorg.com/news147624259.html Biology Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:44:19 EST news147624259 Analysis of newly revealed items found at the site of the mausoleum of King Herod at Herodium (Herodion in Greek) have provided Hebrew University of Jerusalem archaeological researchers with further assurances that this was indeed the site of the famed ruler's 1st century B.C.E. grave. http://www.physorg.com/news146316526.html Other Sciences Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:28:46 EST news146316526