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) -- South Korean scientists say they have engineered four beagles that glow red using cloning techniques that could help develop cures for human diseases. The four dogs, all named "Ruppy" - a combination of the words "ruby" and "puppy" - look like typical beagles by daylight. http://www.physorg.com/news160163765.html Biology Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:56:42 EST news160163765 (AP) -- Three more New Zealanders recently returned from Mexico are suspected of having swine flu and Spain announced the first confirmed case of the deadly virus in Europe on Monday, as countries rushed to screen travelers for fevers. http://www.physorg.com/news160039440.html Medicine & Health Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:24:34 EST news160039440 NEC Electronics and Renesas Technology announced plans for a merger to create Japan's largest semiconductor maker, as they seek a way out of the global economic downturn. http://www.physorg.com/news160027873.html Technology Mon, 27 Apr 2009 05:13:22 EST news160027873 South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor, the world's second-largest computer memory chipmaker, Friday reported a sixth straight quarterly loss due to weak chip prices sparked by a global recession. http://www.physorg.com/news159778380.html Technology Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:53:22 EST news159778380 (AP) -- Ebay Inc. has won regulatory approval to acquire online marketplace Gmarket, South Korea's antitrust watchdog said Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news159694370.html Technology Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:33:15 EST news159694370 South Korean scientists said they have cloned a piglet whose organs were genetically modified to make them more suitable for human transplants. http://www.physorg.com/news159599436.html Biology Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:11:05 EST news159599436 South Korea's anti-trust watchdog said Monday it has found no evidence that leading chipmakers in South Korea and other countries colluded to fix prices. http://www.physorg.com/news159425559.html Technology Mon, 20 Apr 2009 05:53:02 EST news159425559 US online auction giant eBay will take a controlling stake in South Korea's biggest online marketplace Gmarket in a deal worth up to 1.2 billion dollars, the two companies announced on Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news159080142.html Technology Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:57:33 EST news159080142 Three South Korean manufacturers said Thursday they are recalling baby powder products after health authorities announced that they contain cancer-causing asbestos. http://www.physorg.com/news157871921.html Medicine & Health Thu, 02 Apr 2009 06:19:00 EST news157871921 (AP) -- On the 27th day of their trek, a dozen "black specks" of humanity crawling across Antarctica's vast white silence, Lou Albershardt heard a sound she'd never heard in two decades on the ice. http://www.physorg.com/news156870658.html Space & Earth Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:11:35 EST news156870658 (AP) -- Scientists sailed Thursday to inspect an undersea volcano that has been erupting for days near Tonga - shooting smoke, steam and ash thousands of feet (meters) into the sky above the South Pacific ocean. http://www.physorg.com/news156663985.html Space & Earth Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:47:14 EST news156663985 South Korea's first space rocket launch has been postponed by a month to late July to give engineers more time for tests, the government said Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news156063981.html Space & Earth Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:06:58 EST news156063981 A few miles from the southeast Florida coast, at a depth of crushing pressure and frigid temperatures, lies an eerie world of snowy coral, undiscovered forms of life and rock towers thrusting through ink-dark water. http://www.physorg.com/news155496557.html Space & Earth Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:29:37 EST news155496557 An experimental procedure that dramatically strengthens stem cells' ability to regenerate damaged tissue could offer new hope to sufferers of muscle-wasting diseases such as myopathy and muscular dystrophy, according to researchers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW). http://www.physorg.com/news155472213.html Medicine & Health Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:43:55 EST news155472213 North European countries and South Korea have the fastest and most widespread telecoms and computer growth in the world, the UN's telecomunications agency said on Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news155192319.html Technology Mon, 02 Mar 2009 04:59:03 EST news155192319 Three disabled athletes from Spain have reached the South Pole unassisted by animals or machines, in what a Spanish newspaper said Sunday was a world first. http://www.physorg.com/news155139994.html Space & Earth Sun, 01 Mar 2009 14:27:30 EST news155139994 In landlocked South Dakota, hundreds of miles and 1,600 feet of elevation from the nearest ocean, South Dakota State University professor Francis Ting studies the structure of breaking waves like those that pound the world`s coastlines. http://www.physorg.com/news154275025.html Technology Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:11:14 EST news154275025 During the next decade, a delicate measurement of primordial light could reveal convincing evidence for the popular cosmic inflation theory, which proposes that a random, microscopic density fluctuation in the fabric of space and time gave birth to the universe in a hot big bang approximately 13.7 billion years ago. http://www.physorg.com/news154010927.html Space & Earth Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:49:33 EST news154010927 Scientists have recovered fossils of a 60-million-year-old South American snake whose length and weight might make today's anacondas and reticulated pythons seem a bit cuter and more cuddly. http://www.physorg.com/news152969011.html Other Sciences Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:24:21 EST news152969011 Donning a face mask is an easy way to boost protection from severe respiratory illnesses such as influenza and SARS, new research from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has found, but convincing a reluctant public and health workers is proving a struggle. http://www.physorg.com/news152193746.html Medicine & Health Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:05:29 EST news152193746 There is hope that the drug rasagiline can do what no other medication for Parkinson's disease now does -- slow the progression of a devastating degenerative brain disease that eventually robs people of their ability to move and function. http://www.physorg.com/news152193298.html Medicine & Health Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:56:51 EST news152193298 In 2007, South Africa's new Children's Act came into effect, granting children 12 years and older a host of rights relating to reproductive health, including the right to access condoms. But current policies allow individual schools to decide whether or not to give out condoms -- policies that two researchers, writing in this week's PLoS Medicine, say could damage the health of the country's youth. http://www.physorg.com/news151737927.html Medicine & Health Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:25:57 EST news151737927 (PhysOrg.com) -- A comprehensive investigation of plant emissions led by University of South Australia molecular biologist Dr Ellen Nisbet has put pay to the assertion that plants are producing and releasing large quantities of methane into the environment. http://www.physorg.com/news151176747.html Biology Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:32:27 EST news151176747 Cognitive rehabilitation after a serious brain injury or stroke can help the mind in much the same way that physical therapy helps the body, according to a new meta-analysis. Because the data suggest that treatment may work best when tailored to age, injury, symptoms, and time since injury, the findings may help establish evidence-based treatment guidelines. A full report is in the January issue of Neuropsychology, which is published by the American Psychological Association. http://www.physorg.com/news151079650.html Medicine & Health Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:34:10 EST news151079650 The Nasca civilization is perhaps best known for the drawings its people etched onto the desert floor in southwest Peru, a massive and mysterious body of simple and intricate works that span several hundred square miles. http://www.physorg.com/news150654634.html Other Sciences Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:30:34 EST news150654634 When extremes of drought and flood come in rapid succession, the extent of damage to vegetation may depend in part on the sequence of those events, according to a new study published in The American Naturalist. http://www.physorg.com/news150642444.html Biology Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:07:24 EST news150642444 The mystery of why ancient South American peoples who created the mysterious Nazca Lines also collected human heads as trophies has long puzzled scholars who theorize the heads may have been used in fertility rites, taken from enemies in battle or associated with ancestor veneration. http://www.physorg.com/news150373491.html Other Sciences Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:24:51 EST news150373491 The Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society announced today that its efforts to protect a wildlife-rich coastal region in South America have paid off in the form of a new coastal marine park recently signed into law by the Government of Argentina. http://www.physorg.com/news149923404.html Biology Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:23:24 EST news149923404 (PhysOrg.com) -- New species of flowering plants called proteas are exploding onto the scene three times faster in parts of Australia and South Africa than anywhere else in the world, creating exceptional 'hotspots' of species richness, according to new research published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). http://www.physorg.com/news149189012.html Biology Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:23:32 EST news149189012 (PhysOrg.com) -- The closer scientists look at Saturn's small moon Enceladus, the more they find evidence of an active world. The most recent flybys of Enceladus made by NASA's Cassini spacecraft have provided new signs of ongoing changes on and around the moon. The latest high-resolution images of Enceladus show signs that the south polar surface changes over time. http://www.physorg.com/news148581568.html Space & Earth Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:39:28 EST news148581568