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. (AP) -- A multibillion-dollar fund that fights three killer diseases said Friday that it will make public more detailed information about money it has lost to corruption and mismanagement, but won't release other details critics have sought. http://phys.org/news224490451.html Medicine & Health Fri, 13 May 2011 07:27:44 EST news224490451 (PhysOrg.com) -- As part of the European Union's commitment to remaining at the forefront of technology, the European Commission (the governing body of the European Union) has laid out plans for three initial high powered lasers to be built in Eastern Europe with a fourth to come at a later date. The first superlaser in the project is to be built near Prague, with a goal of achieving exawatt class, which would make it at least a hundred times more powerful than anything that exists today. http://phys.org/news223196659.html Physics Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:04:50 EST news223196659 (AP) -- The European Union said Tuesday it has asked the bloc's 27 member countries to probe whether Internet providers block or slow down services in a way that harms consumers. http://phys.org/news222429997.html Technology Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:06:49 EST news222429997 Three-quarters of Europe's children have a profile on a social networking website, while one in five under 13 manage to dodge Facebook's age restriction, a survey showed Monday. http://phys.org/news222349092.html Technology Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:20:01 EST news222349092 Europe will lower the levels of radioactivity allowed in food to match already stricter ceilings set by Japan, European Commission head Jose Manuel Barroso said Tuesday. http://phys.org/news221230834.html Medicine & Health Tue, 05 Apr 2011 14:01:00 EST news221230834 Internet heavyweights including Google and Facebook are to file a complaint with France's highest judicial body against a decree obliging them to keep web users' personal data for a year. http://phys.org/news221215718.html Technology Tue, 05 Apr 2011 11:10:01 EST news221215718 European regulators put pressure Tuesday on 16 of the EU's 27 states in moves to ensure bloc-wide media law is implemented at national level. http://phys.org/news220605036.html Technology Tue, 29 Mar 2011 08:11:00 EST news220605036 Cyber-attackers hacked into the European Commission on Wednesday, hours from a sensitive summit of EU leaders debating the military campaign in Libya, the euro debt crisis and nuclear safety, officials said. http://phys.org/news220120968.html Technology Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:10:02 EST news220120968 Finnish-German giant Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) said Wednesday its purchase of Motorola's wireless network infrastructure assets would be delayed again, with no timeline specified for completion of the deal. http://phys.org/news218900047.html Technology Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:34:22 EST news218900047 A decades-long battle to allow companies to register patents just once across the single European market suffered a major setback Tuesday with a damaging EU court judgment. http://phys.org/news218818430.html Technology Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:20:01 EST news218818430 The European Commission on Tuesday searched several European publishing houses suspected of fixing the price of e-books, a spokeswoman for the competition commissioner said. http://phys.org/news218221234.html Technology Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:01:02 EST news218221234 (AP) -- A French creator of specialized search engines on Tuesday filed a new complaint with the European Union about alleged anticompetitive behavior by Google Inc., a reminder of the regulatory hurdles the online search giant faces in the region. http://phys.org/news217594300.html Technology Tue, 22 Feb 2011 10:52:00 EST news217594300 The European parliament signed off Tuesday on new carbon dioxide restrictions for commercial vans to cut fuel costs and limit emissions blamed for global warming. http://phys.org/news216999561.html Space & Earth Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:39:40 EST news216999561 A US judge has ordered Motorola not to turn over any confidential information from China's Huawei Technologies Co. to Nokia Siemens Networks as she examines a lawsuit filed against the US telecom giant. http://phys.org/news215203678.html Technology Tue, 25 Jan 2011 19:00:02 EST news215203678 Hackers stole two million tonnes of polluting rights in a five-day raid this week on the European Union's carbon emissions trading system, an EU source said on Thursday. http://phys.org/news214754530.html Technology Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:02:29 EST news214754530 The risks encountered by young people on the Internet are less significant than is often believed. This has been demonstrated by the EU Kids Online survey, conducted in 25 European countries by a research network led by the London School of Economics, including a French team headed by Dominique Pasquier of the Laboratoire traitement et communication de l'information. The survey, funded by the European Commission, shows that only a small minority of youngsters is confronted with problems on the Internet, and that very few of these children say they have been upset as a result. The relations between parents and children with respect to the Internet seem to be more harmonious than they are with regard to television. However, about half of those parents whose children have encountered problems online were not aware of them. The results of this survey, carried out in 2010 among 25,140 European Internet users aged 9–16, along with their parents, were disclosed on January 13, 2011. http://phys.org/news214752044.html Technology Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:21:05 EST news214752044 Europe stood by its much-delayed and over-budget Galileo satellite navigation system on Tuesday despite a rising price tag and a contractor's description of the project as "stupid." http://phys.org/news214573846.html Space & Earth Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:10:10 EST news214573846 (AP) -- Intel Corp. and security specialist McAfee Inc. have given commitments to help get European Union approval for the U.S. chipmaker's $7.68 billion takeover, European regulators said Thursday. http://phys.org/news213546916.html Technology Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:35:28 EST news213546916 Intel said Tuesday that US anti-trust regulators have cleared its 7.68-billion-dollar acquisition of computer security firm McAfee but the deal is still being examined in Europe. http://phys.org/news212178108.html Technology Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:22:43 EST news212178108 Taiwanese IT firm Hon Hai Precision said Friday a huge fine imposed by the European Commission on its affiliate Chimei Innolux Corporation for price-fixing was "unfair" and "too high". http://phys.org/news211202767.html Technology Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:26:26 EST news211202767 The European Commission has imposed 649 million euros in fines on South Korean and Taiwanese electronics firms for secretly fixing prices of LCD flat screens for Europe's TVs and computers. http://phys.org/news211026722.html Technology Wed, 08 Dec 2010 11:00:01 EST news211026722 (AP) -- Google announced an agreement Tuesday to use its technology to translate patents into 29 European languages, a deal officials hope will smooth the way toward a simplified European patent system after years of infighting. http://phys.org/news210341640.html Technology Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:40:03 EST news210341640 Europe could ban baby bottles containing the chemical Bisphenol-A under legislation to be proposed next year over fears that it may harm a child's health, the European Commission said Wednesday. http://phys.org/news209816945.html Medicine & Health Wed, 24 Nov 2010 10:29:31 EST news209816945 The one in six Europeans with a disability should be able to cross EU borders carrying a single card offering bloc-wide entitlements from next year, the European Commission said Monday. http://phys.org/news209046902.html Technology Mon, 15 Nov 2010 13:20:18 EST news209046902 Stretching 100 kilometers through Chile's harsh Atacama Desert, a newly inaugurated data cable is creating new opportunities at ESO's Paranal Observatory and the Observatorio Cerro Armazones. Connecting these facilities to the main Latin American scientific data backbone completes the last gap in the high-speed link between the observatories and Europe. http://phys.org/news208103044.html Space & Earth Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:24:22 EST news208103044 European computer guards battled Thursday against a simulated attempt by hackers to bring down critical Internet services in the first pan-continental test of cyber defences. http://phys.org/news208076562.html Technology Thu, 04 Nov 2010 08:10:01 EST news208076562 The northern Spanish city of Vitoria-Gasteiz, whose entire population lives a stone's throw from a green space, has won the European Green Capital award for 2012. http://phys.org/news206974572.html Space & Earth Fri, 22 Oct 2010 14:20:06 EST news206974572 The European Commission Wednesday called for a ban on suspected killer drug mephedrone, a popular ecstasy-like party drug known as "meow meow", sold on the Internet and available in 12 EU nations. http://phys.org/news206791857.html Medicine & Health Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:11:24 EST news206791857 Europe's Galileo satellite navigation system, meant to rival the US-built Global Positioning System (GPS), is over budget, running late and will be unprofitable for years, a press report said on Thursday. http://phys.org/news205648110.html Space & Earth Thu, 07 Oct 2010 05:40:01 EST news205648110 Bisphenol-A, a chemical used in baby bottles that is banned in Australia, Denmark, Canada and France, poses no health risks, the European Food Safety Authority said Friday. http://phys.org/news205072601.html Medicine & Health Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:00:01 EST news205072601