http://www.physorg.com/ en-us PhysOrg Team Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Using mannequins to teach doctors-in-training how to do ultrasound-guided procedures is an effective way to improve their skills without compromising patient care and safety, according to a new study from Henry Ford Hospital. http://www.physorg.com/news178734811.html Medicine & Health 2009-11-29T16:34:02-07:00 Tiny magnetic discs just a millionth of a metre in diameter could be used to used to kill cancer cells, according to a study published on Sunday. http://www.physorg.com/news178725200.html Nanotechnology 2009-11-29T13:59:24-07:00 New connections begin to form between brain cells almost immediately as animals learn a new task, according to a study published this week in Nature. Led by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the study involved detailed observations of the rewiring processes that take place in the brain during motor learning. http://www.physorg.com/news178725126.html Medicine & Health 2009-11-29T13:52:39-07:00 The concept of confinement is one of the central ideas in modern physics. The most famous example is that of quarks which bind together to form protons and neutrons. Now Prof. Bella Lake from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (Germany) together with an international team of scientists report for the first time an experimental realization and a proof of confinement phenomenon observed in a condensed matter system. http://www.physorg.com/news178724926.html Physics 2009-11-29T13:49:37-07:00 Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) suggest that the eccentricity of Saturn's orbit around the sun may be responsible for the unusually uneven distribution of methane and ethane lakes over the northern and southern polar regions of the planet's largest moon, Titan. On Earth, similar "astronomical forcing" of climate drives ice-age cycles. http://www.physorg.com/news178724806.html Space & Earth 2009-11-29T13:49:18-07:00 Researchers using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study brain activation have found that men and women respond differently to positive and negative stimuli, according to a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). http://www.physorg.com/news178722072.html Medicine & Health 2009-11-29T13:30:01-07:00 Scientists at the University of Glasgow, in collaboration with colleagues from Edinburgh, Manchester, Southampton and York universities, have developed technology which will help microchip designers create future integrated circuits. http://www.physorg.com/news178721729.html Technology 2009-11-29T13:20:02-07:00 Australian scientists are working to breed a sheep that belches less, as they look for ways to reduce harmful methane emissions from the country's woolly flocks, a researcher said Sunday. http://www.physorg.com/news178722388.html Biology 2009-11-29T13:20:01-07:00 (AP) -- Leaders of the Commonwealth countries called Saturday for a legally binding international agreement on climate change and a global fund with billions of dollars to help poor countries meet its mandates. http://www.physorg.com/news178721196.html Space & Earth 2009-11-29T13:00:01-07:00 (AP) -- Hugo Chavez says he is starting to "bombard" clouds now that Cuba has provided Venezuela with cloud-seeding help in an effort to produce rain and alleviate the effects of a severe drought. http://www.physorg.com/news178721126.html Space & Earth 2009-11-29T12:46:26-07:00 (AP) -- A school district near Cincinnati is suing a plastics plant, accusing it of continuing to release chemicals in the air that exceed government safety standards. http://www.physorg.com/news178654038.html Space & Earth 2009-11-28T20:50:01-07:00 (AP) -- So, you fail to take a deep breath and to count to 10 - and you post something you probably shouldn't on Twitter or Facebook, or somewhere else online. http://www.physorg.com/news178654017.html Technology 2009-11-28T18:40:01-07:00 (AP) -- A mother in Boston tells police her 8-year-old boy was shot to death in their apartment by gunmen in hooded sweat shirts during a home invasion. http://www.physorg.com/news178653917.html Technology 2009-11-28T18:06:14-07:00 (AP) -- Naked mole rats don't get cancer. They shrug off brushes with acid and age so well, some are older than the college-aged researchers handling them. http://www.physorg.com/news178645682.html Biology 2009-11-28T16:20:01-07:00 (AP) -- Millions of Muslim pilgrims, many wearing surgical masks, jostled together shoulder-to-shoulder furiously casting pebbles at stone walls representing the devil Saturday - the hajj ritual of highest concern to world health authorities watching for an outbreak of swine flu. http://www.physorg.com/news178645622.html Medicine & Health 2009-11-28T15:48:21-07:00 (AP) -- NASA says a piece of old space junk that it's been tracking for a few days is no threat to the International Space Station. http://www.physorg.com/news178645573.html Space & Earth 2009-11-28T15:46:33-07:00 (AP) -- The growth of cell phones with global-positioning technology is making life uncertain for the makers of personal navigational devices that help drivers figure out where they are and where to go. http://www.physorg.com/news178644619.html Electronics 2009-11-28T15:44:33-07:00 (AP) -- Maybe you've been reading the health care bill in your spare time. Then perhaps you can answer this question: http://www.physorg.com/news178644551.html Medicine & Health 2009-11-28T15:29:39-07:00 Apple's top selling iPhone made its debut in South Korea Saturday with experts saying the iconic smartphone is likely to serve as a wake-up call for an IT industry basking in an isolated market. http://www.physorg.com/news178615577.html Technology 2009-11-28T07:26:55-07:00 (AP) -- Japan launched its fifth spy satellite into orbit Saturday in a bid to boost its ability to independently gather intelligence, the government said. http://www.physorg.com/news178615475.html Space & Earth 2009-11-28T07:26:34-07:00 You can practically track Steve Barkley's stress by the level of activity in his temporomandibular joint, or TMJ, the hinge joint that connects the lower jaw to the temporal bone of the skull and helps one chew, talk and yawn. http://www.physorg.com/news178536962.html Medicine & Health 2009-11-27T19:40:04-07:00 (AP) -- Ariana Leonard's high school students shuffled in their seats, eagerly awaiting a cue from their Spanish teacher that the assignment would begin. "Take out your cell phones," she said in Spanish. http://www.physorg.com/news178565351.html Technology 2009-11-27T17:29:38-07:00 (AP) -- For more than 20 years, Mike Nolan was known to radio listeners as the "eye in the sky." He flew over Southern California freeways in his single-engine plane, reporting on the nation's worst traffic. http://www.physorg.com/news178557435.html Technology 2009-11-27T15:40:01-07:00 The discovery that an ancient light harvesting protein plays a pivotal role in the photosynthesis of green algae should help the effort to develop algae as a biofuels feedstock. Researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have identified the protein LHCSR as the molecular "dimmer switch" that acts to prevent green algae from absorbing too much sunlight during photosynthesis and suffering oxidation damage as a consequence. http://www.physorg.com/news178555031.html Biology 2009-11-27T15:10:01-07:00 It doesn't seem like a fair fight. In one corner loomed the Thanksgiving table, groaning with poultry, pie and mashed potatoes. http://www.physorg.com/news178554433.html Medicine & Health 2009-11-27T14:27:40-07:00 (AP) -- The Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve are giving U.S. financial institutions an additional six months to comply with regulations designed to ban Internet gambling. http://www.physorg.com/news178551993.html Technology 2009-11-27T14:10:01-07:00 Fujitsu Laboratories today announced, as a world first, the development of a novel technology for forming graphene transistors directly on the entire surface of large-scale insulating substrates at low temperatures while employing chemical-vapor deposition (CVD) techniques which are in widespread use in semiconductor manufacturing. http://www.physorg.com/news178552799.html Technology 2009-11-27T14:00:59-07:00 (AP) -- James Cameron was thinking beyond the big screen when he created the alien world of Pandora. The "Titanic" director worked in tandem with video game developer Ubisoft Montreal on the game based on his upcoming sci-fi epic "Avatar." http://www.physorg.com/news178551980.html Technology 2009-11-27T14:00:04-07:00 (PhysOrg.com) -- The European Space Agency has today released spectacular new observations from the Herschel Space Observatory, including the UK-led SPIRE instrument. Spectrometers on board all three Hershel instruments have been used to analyse the light from objects inside our galaxy and from other galaxies, producing some of the best measurements yet of atoms and molecules involved in the birth and death of stars. http://www.physorg.com/news178551842.html Space & Earth 2009-11-27T13:45:21-07:00 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Uppsala University and University Children`s Hospital in Uppsala have devised powerful new tools for typing cells from children with acute lymphatic leukemia and for prediction of how children with leukemia will respond to chemotherapy. The study was recently published in electronic form by the prestigious hematological journal Blood. http://www.physorg.com/news178550370.html Medicine & Health 2009-11-27T13:21:30-07:00