http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Samsung launched its Galaxy S III smartphone in the United States Thursday after fending off a legal challenge from rival Apple, which claimed it infringed on iPhone technology. http://phys.org/news259496597.html Electronics Thu, 21 Jun 2012 11:40:01 EST news259496597 (Phys.org) -- A lightweight, single-seat test car designed and built by students at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, won the Society of Automotive Engineers' 2012 International Supermileage Challenge on June 8. Team members returned with a trophy and a $1,400 check. http://phys.org/news258790999.html Technology Wed, 13 Jun 2012 07:23:28 EST news258790999 Google's online search and advertising services are under scrutiny by regulators in Argentina and South Korea, the company has confirmed. http://phys.org/news254904780.html Technology Sun, 29 Apr 2012 08:40:01 EST news254904780 (PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine being able to monitor protein expression levels in a cell as they change over time and in response to external stimuli. That is just what researchers did when they studied the photosynthetic blue-green algae, Cyanothece 51142, as part of the Membrane Biology Scientific Grand Challenge at EMSL. The Challenge's team members from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Washington University in St. Louis measured dynamic changes in protein expression within Cyanothece when it performed photosynthesis. http://phys.org/news252749612.html Chemistry Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:20:01 EST news252749612 Amateur cybersleuths have been hunting malware, raising firewalls and fending off mock hack attacks in a series of simulations supported in part by Britain's eavesdropping agency. http://phys.org/news250748353.html Technology Mon, 12 Mar 2012 05:20:28 EST news250748353 Students, professionals, public sought to create algorithm enabling capture of objects in space. http://phys.org/news250333348.html Technology Wed, 07 Mar 2012 09:02:42 EST news250333348 Intersections of the future will not need stop lights or stop signs, but will look like a somewhat chaotic flow of driverless, autonomous cars slipping past one another as they are managed by a virtual traffic controller, says computer scientist Peter Stone. http://phys.org/news248789776.html Technology Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:40:01 EST news248789776 Malaysian activists said on Friday they had filed a court challenge to block a rare earths plant being built by Australian miner Lynas, which has stoked fears over radiation pollution. http://phys.org/news248709343.html Technology Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:55:51 EST news248709343 Innovative software to help teachers stay at the forefront of the digital revolution in education has been developed by researchers funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). http://phys.org/news242387640.html Other Sciences Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:54:08 EST news242387640 Almost 9,000 teams registered to participate in DARPA's Shredder Challenge. Thirty-three days after the challenge was announced, one small San Francisco-based team correctly reconstructed each of the five challenge documents and solved their associated puzzles. The ‘All Your Shreds Are Belong to U.S.’ team, which won the $50,000 prize, used custom-coded, computer-vision algorithms to suggest fragment pairings to human assemblers for verification. In total, the winning team spent nearly 600 man-hours developing algorithms and piecing together documents that were shredded into more than 10,000 pieces. http://phys.org/news242297243.html Technology Mon, 05 Dec 2011 08:47:37 EST news242297243 (PhysOrg.com) -- With only days left until the December 4 Shredder Challenge deadline, DARPA is still asking the sharpest-minded computer scientists and simply the curious if anyone among them has the skills to reconstruct shredded documents and solve DARPA’s five puzzles? There are five separate puzzles in which the number of documents, the document subject matter and the method of shredding are varied and present increasing difficulty. http://phys.org/news241205575.html Technology Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:33:10 EST news241205575 (PhysOrg.com) -- The Japanese Tokai University Solar Car Team has won the Veolia World Solar Challenge, a 3,021 kilometer race between tiny cars relying on mostly solar power. Running between Darwin, a remote town in one of the most northern parts of Australia, and the city of Adelaide in the very south, the race bisects the continent and takes the drivers and their teams through some very hostile territory. http://phys.org/news238414286.html Technology Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:12:39 EST news238414286 (PhysOrg.com) -- With a cutting-edge solar car, an advanced strategy and an intrepid 16-student race crew, the University of Michigan's national champion solar car team is ready for the upcoming World Solar Challenge. The 1,800-mile international contest starts on the north shore of Australia in Darwin on Oct. 16. http://phys.org/news237622915.html Technology Wed, 12 Oct 2011 07:22:05 EST news237622915 At the Oct. 2-6 microTAS 2011 conference, the premier international event for reporting research in microfluidics, nanotechnology and detection technologies for life science and chemistry, University of Cincinnati researchers will present a simple, low-cost, method for separating and safely collecting concentrated volumes of fragile prostate cancer cells. http://phys.org/news236426250.html Chemistry Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:57:37 EST news236426250 Professor Jie Tang, Group Leader of the 1D Nanomaterials Research Group of the Materials Processing Unit, National Institute for Materials Science, and Mr. Qian Cheng, a doctoral student and NIMS Junior Researcher in the same Group, have succeeded in dramatically increasing the energy density of supercapacitors, which are used to store electrical energy. http://phys.org/news235837621.html Nanotechnology Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:00:03 EST news235837621 On Thursday, Aug. 11, the Stanford Solar Car Project officially unveils Xenith, a solar-powered vehicle two years in the making that boasts several industry-leading technological innovations. The team will be competing in the prestigious World Solar Challenge this fall, putting Xenith to the test in a 2,000-mile race across the Australian continent. http://phys.org/news232359175.html Technology Fri, 12 Aug 2011 09:15:02 EST news232359175 The national champion solar car team will soon put its 2011 car and crew to the toughest test before the October World Solar Challenge. On Saturday, the University of Michigan team will embark on a 1,000-mile, four-day "mock race" that will ring the state's Lower Peninsula. http://phys.org/news229768560.html Technology Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:36:44 EST news229768560 Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt has agreed to testify at a US Senate hearing into online competition in September. http://phys.org/news229400312.html Technology Sat, 09 Jul 2011 03:18:49 EST news229400312 The EU refused Saturday to back down on a planned pollution tax on airline companies after reports China has put an Airbus order on ice and growing discontent in the United States. http://phys.org/news228237910.html Space & Earth Sat, 25 Jun 2011 16:25:51 EST news228237910 (AP) -- The woman stands close to a mirror fingering her throat. Then, sweeping back a mane of red hair, she injects heroin into her jugular vein. A nurse keeps an eye on her from behind. http://phys.org/news224339219.html Medicine & Health Wed, 11 May 2011 14:00:01 EST news224339219 (PhysOrg.com) -- Duke researchers measured innovative performance using the number of U.S. patent applications produced by employees. http://phys.org/news220695208.html Other Sciences Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:13:51 EST news220695208 (PhysOrg.com) -- It's a car. It's a bike. It's the winner of the Double Challenge project sponsored by Citroen. It may look like a prop from the move TRON, but in actuality it is an ultra-compact electric vehicle. Somewhere between a motorcycle and a car this vehicle is light, aerodynamically efficient, economical and cheap to build. The project, which was designed by Heikki Juvonen, a masters degree students at London's Royal College of Art, is called E-3POD Antistatic. http://phys.org/news216482920.html Technology Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:09:31 EST news216482920 While there is no doubt that the ethical controversy surrounding human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research has given rise to an uncertain policy environment, the true impact of years of frequent policy changes has not been fully assessed. Now, an article published by Cell Press on February 3rd in the journal Cell Stem Cell reports on a recent survey of several hundred stem cell scientists in the United States and begins to reveal the substantial negative impact that this uncertainty has had on them, including both those who work directly with hESCs and those who work with less contentious types of stem cells. http://phys.org/news215960374.html Biology Thu, 03 Feb 2011 13:01:19 EST news215960374 The US Justice Department is preparing a potential court challenge to Google's $700 million acquisition of travel information company ITA Software, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. http://phys.org/news214162430.html Technology Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:50:01 EST news214162430 The Cadillac Aera concept vehicle won the 2010 Los Angeles Auto Show Design Challenge, tying with Smart and besting entries from seven other automakers including Mercedes-Benz, Honda, Nissan, Toyota and Maybach. GM Advanced Design has now won the honor more times than any other design team; this is its third victory since 2005. http://phys.org/news209637275.html Technology Mon, 22 Nov 2010 08:34:50 EST news209637275 As much as 12 percent of the world’s human-caused greenhouse gas emissions could be sustainably offset by producing biochar, a charcoal-like substance made from plants and other organic materials. That’s more than what could be offset if the same plants and materials were burned to generate energy, concludes a study published today in the journal Nature Communications. http://phys.org/news200632052.html Space & Earth Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:00:02 EST news200632052 (PhysOrg.com) -- Finishing more than two hours ahead of its nearest competitor, the University of Michigan Solar Car Team has won the American Solar Challenge for a third consecutive North American title. http://phys.org/news196962800.html Technology Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:10:05 EST news196962800 In a solar-powered vehicle that reached 100 mph in testing, the University of Michigan Solar Car Team is aiming for a third consecutive North American title. The team is in Cresson, Texas, this week testing the car in preparation for the 2010 American Solar Challenge, which begins June 20. http://phys.org/news195841013.html Technology Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:50:02 EST news195841013 (PhysOrg.com) -- "Junior," an autonomous car developed by the Stanford Racing Team, has been taught how to park itself -- by putting itself into reverse, accelerating up to 25 miles per hour, and then suddenly braking while turning the wheel sharply, which starts it on a 180-degree spinning slide right into the parking spot. http://phys.org/news192784548.html Technology Tue, 11 May 2010 08:30:01 EST news192784548 (PhysOrg.com) -- Promising faster, more efficient and cheaper computer networking, transparent networks are the paradigm of the future. But thanks to European researchers, they are on their way already. http://phys.org/news188219344.html Technology Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:20:03 EST news188219344