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. A federal appeals court is being asked to decide if the government must obtain a warrant before placing a GPS tracker on a suspect's car. http://phys.org/news282919749.html Technology Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:49:16 EST news282919749 Childhood toys lost in a war-torn field have inspired an odd-looking invention which its young Dutch inventor hopes can help save thousands of lives and limbs in his native Afghanistan. http://phys.org/news276411038.html Technology Thu, 03 Jan 2013 04:50:51 EST news276411038 If not for the GPS device, no one would know she's here. A great white shark affectionately dubbed Mary Lee by scientists and adopted by thousands of online fans has been using the waters off North Carolina's coast as a private all-you-can-eat buffet. http://phys.org/news274027154.html Biology Thu, 06 Dec 2012 15:40:02 EST news274027154 A recent US Supreme Court decision is hurting the ability of federal law enforcement agencies to monitor criminal suspects with global positioning satellites (GPS), according to FBI Director Robert Mueller. http://phys.org/news250441827.html Technology Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:10:56 EST news250441827 (AP) -- Mike Trang likes to use his iPhone 4 as a GPS device, helping him get around in his job. Now and then, his younger cousins get ahold of it, and play some YouTube videos and games. http://phys.org/news248325970.html Technology Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:40:01 EST news248325970 A US Supreme Court decision requiring a warrant to place a GPS device on the car of a criminal suspect leaves unresolved the bigger issue of police tracking using mobile phones, legal experts say. http://phys.org/news248174438.html Technology Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:21:58 EST news248174438 (AP) -- In a rare defeat for law enforcement, the Supreme Court unanimously agreed on Monday to bar police from installing GPS technology to track suspects without first getting a judge's approval. The justices made clear it wouldn't be their final word on increasingly advanced high-tech surveillance of Americans. http://phys.org/news246547871.html Technology Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:31:22 EST news246547871 The Supreme Court invoked visions of an all-seeing Big Brother and satellites watching us from above. Then things got personal Tuesday when the justices were told police could slap GPS devices on their cars and track their movements, without asking a judge for advance approval. http://phys.org/news239974805.html Technology Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:40:12 EST news239974805 Toucans in the tropics disperse nutmegs the furthest in the morning, according to research by Wageningen UR ecologist Patrick Jansen. http://phys.org/news232800069.html Biology Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:41:23 EST news232800069 (AP) -- On a bright July morning, Adam Marler punched locations into a GPS device and set off in his pickup truck from Fresno into the back roads and citrus orchards of California's Central Valley. http://phys.org/news229948046.html Biology Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:10:01 EST news229948046 (AP) -- The Supreme Court has added a couple of high-profile constitutional challenges to its lineup of cases for next term: One looking at governmental regulation of television content and the other dealing with the authority of police to use a GPS device to track a suspect's movements without a warrant. http://phys.org/news228476574.html Technology Tue, 28 Jun 2011 10:43:10 EST news228476574 (AP) -- The Supreme Court will weigh in on an important privacy issue for the digital age: whether the police need a warrant before using a global positioning system device to track a suspect's movements. http://phys.org/news228389516.html Technology Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:32:03 EST news228389516 The average U.S. soldier on a 72-hour patrol carries between 10 and 20 pounds of batteries. http://phys.org/news218459522.html Technology Fri, 04 Mar 2011 11:12:17 EST news218459522 (PhysOrg.com) -- If a plan to build new 4G mobile phone base stations in the US goes ahead, engineers say GPS satellite navigation systems will be seriously jammed and huge areas of the country will become GPS dead zones. http://phys.org/news217665942.html Technology Wed, 23 Feb 2011 06:50:01 EST news217665942 Frustrated by students habitually skipping class, police and school officials in Anaheim, Calif., are turning to GPS tracking to ensure they come to class. http://phys.org/news217530658.html Technology Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:30:02 EST news217530658 (AP) -- Golf is a constant quest for improvement, which is why new clubs, balls, training aids and other gadgets are introduced each year. If gadgets were truly the answer, of course, there would be more top-notch golfers littering the links. http://phys.org/news214062185.html Electronics Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:43:22 EST news214062185 South African rangers on Thursday announced a plan to implant GPS devices in the horns of rhinos in a new effort to combat rampant poaching. http://phys.org/news206891134.html Biology Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:20:02 EST news206891134 It's been 10 years since HackAttack and Ma Bell planted one of the longest-active geocaches in the country and the oldest in Texas -- known as Tombstone, in Arlington -- but since then it has been found 342 times and counting. http://phys.org/news193390227.html Technology Tue, 18 May 2010 08:50:01 EST news193390227 (AP) -- A man fired from a Texas auto dealership used an Internet service to remotely disable ignitions and set off car horns of more than 100 vehicles sold at his old workplace, police said Wednesday. http://phys.org/news188072264.html Technology Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:18:15 EST news188072264 (AP) -- In a holiday hurry, Jeramie Griffin piled his family into the car and asked his new GPS for the quickest way from his home in the Willamette Valley across the Cascade Range. http://phys.org/news181627969.html Technology Sat, 02 Jan 2010 04:30:05 EST news181627969 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://phys.org/news177358842.html Technology Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:21:41 EST news177358842 GPS navigation is morphing from a cool luxury to just one more thing you expect out of a decent smart phone. But different phones approach the issue in different ways. http://phys.org/news176643094.html Electronics Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:40:03 EST news176643094 Since Apple Inc. announced it would support turn-by-turn GPS applications for the iPhone, a slew of GPS apps have appeared in the iTunes app store. http://phys.org/news174207254.html Technology Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:00:01 EST news174207254 I got my first GPS device just two years ago, and I like it a lot. Nonetheless, I'm ready to replace the gadget with something better: my phone. http://phys.org/news168108681.html Electronics Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:00:01 EST news168108681 (PhysOrg.com) -- David Van Sickle is looking for a few pioneering asthmatics. He wants to attach a GPS device to their inhalers before they boldly go out into a spring world filled with allergens. http://phys.org/news157306758.html Medicine & Health Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:20:06 EST news157306758