Intel Microchip Packs Two Billion Transistors
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Intel has just announced the first microchip that contains more than two billion transistors - tiny switches that together perform the calculations in computers. The chip, known as Tukwila, marks a milestone ...
Material Changes its Color, Depending on How You Look at It
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Looking at the metallic woodboring beetle head-on, the insect appears red. But viewing it from the side, the beetle starts to take on a greenish hue, and then turns completely green at an 80-degree angle. ...
Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 04, 2008 |
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Anthropogenic forcing could push the Earth’s climate system past critical thresholds, so that important components may “tip” into qualitatively different modes of operation. In the renowned magazine Proceedings of ...
Bio-crude turns cheap waste into valuable fuel
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CSIRO and Monash University have developed a chemical process that turns green waste into a stable bio-crude oil.
Team develops energy-efficient microchip
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Researchers at MIT and Texas Instruments have unveiled a new chip design for portable electronics that can be up to 10 times more energy-efficient than present technology. The design could lead to cell phones, implantable ...
Neutron Stars Join the Black-Hole Jet Set
Feb 04, 2008 |
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A team of astronomers has discovered a neutron star emitting an extended stream of powerful X rays, marking the first time such an extended X-ray jet has been detected originating from any class of object ...
Irregular exercise pattern may add pounds
Feb 04, 2008 |
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The consequences of quitting exercise may be greater than previously thought, according to a new study from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory that determined that the weight gained during ...
Bacterium sequenced makes rare form of chlorophyll
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Feb 04, 2008 |
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Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and Arizona State University have sequenced the genome of a rare bacterium that harvests light energy by making an even rarer form of chlorophyll, chlorophyll d. Chlorophyll ...
Video games activate reward regions of brain in men more than women
Feb 04, 2008 |
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Allan Reiss, MD, and his colleagues have a pretty good idea why your husband or boyfriend can't put down the Halo 3. In a first-of-its-kind imaging study, the Stanford University School of Medicine researchers have shown ...
Gotta have heart! Crocodilians bypass their lungs to improve digestion
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As perhaps confirmed by their ubiquity on nature cable channels, crocodiles are among nature’s most fearsome predators. When the opportunity arises, crocodilians will gorge, voluntarily consuming meals weighing ...
Thinking too complicated? Neuronal activity is far more predictable than assumed
Feb 04, 2008 |
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How sensitive are neuronal networks to external interference? To what extent are neuronal network processes including the thinking patterns of the brain predefined? These questions have been investigated by ...
Materials can come from the mind, not just the mines
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Dr. Julia E. Medvedeva, assistant professor of physics at Missouri University of Science and Technology, believes materials can come from the mind, not just the mines.
Small bit of a CMOS chip holds 2-D through-the-walls radar imager
Feb 04, 2008 |
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Two researchers from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering have created a send/receive chip that functions as an active array, sending out a matrix of 49 simultaneous ultrawideband radar probe beams and picking up the returned ...
Gas 'finger' points to galaxies' future
Feb 04, 2008 |
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Like a fork piercing a fried egg, a giant finger of hydrogen gas is poking through our Milky Way Galaxy from outside, astronomers using CSIRO radio telescopes at Parkes and Narrabri have found.
Hidden art could be revealed by new terahertz device
Feb 04, 2008 |
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Like X-rays let doctors see the bones beneath our skin, "T-rays" could let art historians see murals hidden beneath coats of plaster or paint in centuries-old buildings, University of Michigan engineering researchers say.
