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. The Dutch government said Friday it wants to introduce a "green" road tax by the kilometre from 2012 aimed at cutting carbon dioxide emissions by 10 percent and halving congestion. http://www.physorg.com/news177358842.html Technology Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:21:41 EST news177358842 (PhysOrg.com) -- As a society, we are increasingly interested in finding new ways of transportation that are cleaner for the environment. New concepts in mass transit seem to be one of the main ways to move toward this future. However, many people (especially in the U.S.) don't want to give up the privacy of individual travel. As a result, it might be that so-called "sky pods" may provide the answer. http://www.physorg.com/news172939296.html Technology Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:42:27 EST news172939296 (AP) -- Fiddling with your iPhone behind the wheel can get you fined across much of the nation. But many states are more than happy to tweet you with up-to-the-minute directions on how to steer clear of a traffic jam. http://www.physorg.com/news172514450.html Technology Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:30:01 EST news172514450 (PhysOrg.com) -- A European research project works out how to keep car-to-car data transmissions private and secure from malicious hackers. http://www.physorg.com/news172175208.html Technology Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:00:01 EST news172175208 Controlling road traffic in congested areas is difficult to say the least, a point to which any drive-time urban commuter might testify. An organic approach to traffic lights, might help solve the problem and avoid traffic jams and gridlock, according to research published this month in the International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems. http://www.physorg.com/news165567793.html Technology Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:03:40 EST news165567793 (PhysOrg.com) -- Countless hours are lost in traffic jams every year. Most frustrating of all are those jams with no apparent cause - no accident, no stalled vehicle, no lanes closed for construction. http://www.physorg.com/news163778747.html Other Sciences Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:06:15 EST news163778747 (PhysOrg.com) -- Picture this next time you're stuck in traffic: Thousands of wildebeests loping across the Serengeti Plain when suddenly a few spooked animals turn the orderly migration into a sea of locked horns, U-turns, head-on collisions and trampled calves. http://www.physorg.com/news163417792.html Technology Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:50:36 EST news163417792 What would life be like without Google? Last week 83 million people found out. http://www.physorg.com/news162063219.html Technology Wed, 20 May 2009 18:33:56 EST news162063219 Researchers in condensed matter physics at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago have created an experimental and computer model to study how jamming, the physical process in which collections of particles are crammed together to behave as solids, might affect the behavior of systems in which thermal motion is important, such as molecules in a glass. http://www.physorg.com/news161439954.html Physics Wed, 13 May 2009 13:27:01 EST news161439954 An article by Dr. Xavier Trepat, senior researcher of the Cellular and respiratory biomechanics group at the University of Barcelona, Spain, contributes for the first time an experimental answer to the question of how cells move during biological processes as diverse as the development, metastasis, or regeneration of tissues. http://www.physorg.com/news160834200.html Physics Wed, 06 May 2009 13:10:38 EST news160834200 (PhysOrg.com) -- As highway traffic increases, you'd probably expect a traffic jam, where vehicles slow down due to the high density. While traffic jams are a common occurrence on our highways, high density traffic has completely different effects for ants traveling on trails. As a new study has found, ants don't have traffic jams. Rather, as ant traffic density increases, the traffic maintains the same average velocity as at low densities. http://www.physorg.com/news157627187.html Biology Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:20:19 EST news157627187 A new Rice University report released yesterday, exactly six months after Hurricane Ike slammed the Texas Gulf Coast, suggests that people did not practice the lessons learned from Hurricane Rita. http://www.physorg.com/news156159526.html Other Sciences Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:43:40 EST news156159526 The streets were strangely quiet as I walked my daughter to school Tuesday morning. Baby stroller traffic jams are the norm in our south London neighborhood, nicknamed the "Nappy Valley" for its prodigious birthrate. But we were alone as we tripped along through the remnants of London's biggest snowfall in 18 years. http://www.physorg.com/news152987864.html Space & Earth Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:38:46 EST news152987864 National economies are driven by the automobile, even during an economic downturn. Every day, hundreds of millions of people take their cars to visit remote places, to commute, and to reach the supermarket. http://www.physorg.com/news152881093.html Other Sciences Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:40:14 EST news152881093