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. Old Asia-Pacific maps from Japanese Imperial Army archives are going online for modern use, such as studying changes in forest cover or the growth of cities, a Japanese researcher said Friday. http://www.physorg.com/news165861156.html Technology 2009-07-03T19:40:01-07:00 German auto maker Volkswagen hopes to turn out its first all-electric car in 2013, VW head Martin Winterkorn said Friday. http://www.physorg.com/news165861018.html Technology 2009-07-03T17:31:47-07:00 (PhysOrg.com) -- `Geoengineering` experiments proposed to reduce global warming by blocking sunlight with atmosphere-injected particles may cool the world but still leave carbon dioxide levels dangerously high, Stanford scientists say. http://www.physorg.com/news165847604.html Space & Earth 2009-07-03T13:47:15-07:00 For Mark Changizi, it`s all in the eyes. http://www.physorg.com/news165847500.html Medicine & Health 2009-07-03T13:45:34-07:00 (PhysOrg.com) -- Battling invasive plants is nothing new to Montanans, but a newcomer on the scene dwells in the water. This aquatic invader is called Eurasian watermilfoil. Fortunately, Montanans can take preventive action against this waterborne species, as its distribution across the state is very limited. http://www.physorg.com/news165847290.html Biology 2009-07-03T13:42:46-07:00 A racing car created from potatoes and carrots and powered by chocolate will be put through its paces this weekend at the world`s largest celebration of motorsport. http://www.physorg.com/news165846610.html Technology 2009-07-03T13:31:14-07:00 (PhysOrg.com) -- In the bustling economy of the cell, little bubbles called vesicles serve as container ships, ferrying cargo to and from the port - the cell membrane. Some of these vesicles, called post-Golgi vesicles, export cargo made by the cell`s protein factory. http://www.physorg.com/news165846340.html Biology 2009-07-03T13:26:32-07:00 (PhysOrg.com) -- People who live alone have twice the risk of developing dementia and Alzheimer's disease in later life compared with married or cohabiting people, according to a research study led by Miia Kivipelto from Karolinska Institutet and published on the prominent British Medical Journal's website, bmj.com. http://www.physorg.com/news165808399.html Medicine & Health 2009-07-03T13:23:12-07:00 (PhysOrg.com) -- Despite recent declines in cigarette use in the U.S., nicotine dependence has remained steady among adults and has actually increased among some groups. The finding by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health suggests that public health initiatives have been far more successful in preventing Americans from taking up smoking than in persuading hard-core smokers to stop. The study is available online in the American Journal of Public Health and will be published in the August 2009 issue. http://www.physorg.com/news165845935.html Medicine & Health 2009-07-03T13:19:05-07:00 (PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Adelaide study has recommended that infertile couples seek advice about their lifestyle before embarking on IVF treatment or other assisted reproductive technology. http://www.physorg.com/news165842261.html Medicine & Health 2009-07-03T12:18:31-07:00 The more dots there are, the more accurate a picture you get when you connect them. Cancer researchers adopting that philosophy have developed a new imaging technology that could give scientists the ability to simultaneously measure as many as 100 or more distinct features in or on a single cell. In a disease such as cancer, that capability would provide a much better picture of what is going on in individual tumor cells. http://www.physorg.com/news165776414.html Nanotechnology 2009-07-03T12:00:02-07:00 (PhysOrg.com) -- An oxygen-sensitive enzyme has been found to play a key role in how genes create the many different proteins that make up our bodies. http://www.physorg.com/news165840579.html Chemistry 2009-07-03T11:50:05-07:00 Hong Kong on Friday detected a strain of swine flu that was resistant to Tamiflu, the main anti-viral flu drug, the health department reported on its website. http://www.physorg.com/news165838077.html Medicine & Health 2009-07-03T11:40:01-07:00 The Obama administration is planning to use the National Security Agency to screen Internet traffic between government agencies and the private sector, the Washington Post reported Friday. http://www.physorg.com/news165839875.html Technology 2009-07-03T11:38:41-07:00 (PhysOrg.com) -- Last night, the detectors of Planck's High Frequency Instrument reached their amazingly low operational temperature of -273°C, making them the coldest known objects in space. The spacecraft has also just entered its final orbit around the second Lagrange point of the Sun-Earth system, L2. http://www.physorg.com/news165839026.html Space & Earth 2009-07-03T11:24:25-07:00 The first home in the UK which can learn from its residents and take decisive action and text if it is being burgled or the door has been left unlocked, will be unveiled this week in Cairo. http://www.physorg.com/news165838640.html Technology 2009-07-03T11:17:43-07:00 Some 89,921 people in 125 countries and territories have caught swine flu, with 382 having died since the outbreak was uncovered in April, World Health Organisation data released Friday showed. http://www.physorg.com/news165837982.html Medicine & Health 2009-07-03T11:07:16-07:00 For months, a powerful Republican senator from Alabama has fought the Obama administration to block $150 million that the White House wanted to spend to help private companies build rockets capable of reaching the international space station. http://www.physorg.com/news165837896.html Space & Earth 2009-07-03T11:05:28-07:00 (PhysOrg.com) -- You do two things at motorway services: fill up one tank and empty another. US chemists have combined refuelling your car and relieving yourself by creating a new catalyst that can extract hydrogen from urine. http://www.physorg.com/news165836803.html Chemistry 2009-07-03T10:47:26-07:00 (PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, scientists have successfully operated a quantum gate between two remote particles of matter, marking an important step toward the development of a quantum computer. In previous experiments, researchers have used photons, which are difficult to store. Using matter qubits enables the researchers to store the obtained quantum information, opening up new possibilities for the generation of remote networks of entangled qubits. http://www.physorg.com/news165836423.html Physics 2009-07-03T10:40:56-07:00 Scientists at Singapore's Bioprocessing Technology Institute (BTI) have made a novel discovery about how the gene, "Fas-apoptosis inhibitory molecule" (FAIM), protects both immune and liver cells from apoptosis, or programmed cell death. http://www.physorg.com/news165825938.html Medicine & Health 2009-07-03T07:46:05-07:00 (AP) -- The Obama administration is moving cautiously on a new pilot program that would both detect and stop cyber attacks against government computers, while trying to ensure citizen privacy protections. http://www.physorg.com/news165825836.html Technology 2009-07-03T07:44:23-07:00 Australian scientists hailed the country's most significant dinosaur discovery in decades on Friday after three new species were unearthed in a Queensland billabong. http://www.physorg.com/news165816652.html Other Sciences 2009-07-03T05:11:24-07:00 (AP) -- Tomato plants have been removed from stores in half a dozen states as a destructive and infectious plant disease makes its earliest and most widespread appearance ever in the eastern United States. http://www.physorg.com/news165816583.html Biology 2009-07-03T05:10:11-07:00 Existing drugs used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease could be repositioned for use in the treatment of extreme drug-resistant tuberculosis, which kills about 2 million people each year, according to a study led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego. The rise of these strains of TB throughout the world, including industrialized countries, poses a great threat to human health. http://www.physorg.com/news165808166.html Medicine & Health 2009-07-03T03:50:01-07:00 Japan's near-silent hybrid cars have been called dangerous by the vision-impaired and some users, prompting a government review on whether to add a noise-making device, according to an official. http://www.physorg.com/news165808257.html Technology 2009-07-03T03:40:02-07:00 Mental stress causes carotid artery dilation and increases brain blood flow. A series of ultrasound experiments, described in BioMed Central's open access journal Cardiovascular Ultrasound, also found that this dilatory reflex was absent in people with high blood pressure. http://www.physorg.com/news165808114.html Medicine & Health 2009-07-03T03:20:01-07:00 Research led by the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE) has identified a new gene associated with diabetes, together with a mechanism that makes obese mice less susceptible to diabetes. http://www.physorg.com/news165808028.html Medicine & Health 2009-07-03T02:47:44-07:00 (AP) -- A former surgery technician may have exposed thousands of Colorado patients to hepatitis C when she swapped her own dirty syringes for ones filled with a powerful narcotic, federal authorities said Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news165805194.html Medicine & Health 2009-07-03T02:00:25-07:00 (AP) -- Swine flu is running wild in the Southern Hemisphere and is spreading rapidly through Europe, with Britain projected to reach 100,000 daily cases by the end of August. The virus is even showing signs of rebounding in Mexico. http://www.physorg.com/news165772938.html Medicine & Health 2009-07-02T20:10:01-07:00