Intel Research Chip Advances 'Era Of Tera'
Feb 12, 2007 |
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Intel researchers have developed the world's first programmable processor that delivers supercomputer-like performance from a single, 80-core chip not much larger than the size of a finger nail while using ...
Handheld windmills serve as electric generators
Feb 12, 2007 |
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It’s not quite nanotechnology, but these inches-long windmills can generate small amounts of electric energy to power a variety of low-voltage applications. Since they’re made entirely of plastic, they cost ...
New supercomputer to be unveiled
Feb 12, 2007 |
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A Canadian firm is claiming to have taken a quantum leap in technology by producing a computer that can perform 64,000 calculations at once.
Researchers Create Tiny, Self-Propelled Devices
Feb 12, 2007 |
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North Carolina State University scientists have figured out a method to supply microscopic devices with enough energy to not only allow them to propel themselves through liquid – a difficult function in its own right – but ...
Glaciers Not on Simple, Upward Trend of Melting
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 12, 2007 |
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Two of Greenland's largest glaciers shrank dramatically and dumped twice as much ice into the sea during a period of less than a year between 2004 and 2005. And then, less than two years later, they returned ...
Focus on Europa, planetary scientist says
Feb 12, 2007 |
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Yogi Berra supposedly suggested that when you come to a fork in the road, you are supposed to take it. That's just what planetary scientists studying the rich data set from the Galileo Mission to the outer solar system are ...
Comets Clash at Heart of Helix Nebula
Feb 12, 2007 |
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A bunch of rowdy comets are colliding and kicking up dust around a dead star, according to new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The dead star lies at the center of the much-photographed Helix ...
Changing gold
Feb 12, 2007 |
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Gold is not as noble and stable as it has been previously thought. This is the conclusion of an international team of researchers from Germany, France and Sweden who came to the ESRF to study the structure of this material ...
Vasectomy may put men at risk for type of dementia
Feb 12, 2007 |
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Northwestern University researchers have discovered men with an unusual form of dementia have a higher rate of vasectomy than men the same age who are cognitively normal.
Psychologist explains the neurochemistry behind romance
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 12, 2007 |
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The Beatles' George Harrison wondered in his famous love song about the "something" that "attracts me like no other lover." A University at Buffalo expert explains that that "something" is actually several physical elements ...
Mice cloned using skin cells for first time: study
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Feb 12, 2007 |
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Healthy and viable mice that survive until adulthood have, for the first time, been cloned from adult stem cells.
New medical technique punches holes in cells, could treat tumors
Feb 12, 2007 |
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A large animal study has shown that certain microsecond electrical pulses can punch nanoscale holes in the membranes of target cells without harming tissue scaffolding, including that in the blood vessels - ...
Researchers publish first working model that explains how biological clocks work
Feb 12, 2007 |
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Science has known for decades that biological clocks govern the behavior of everything from humans to lowly bread mold. These ticking timekeepers hold the key to many diseases, annoy passengers on intercontinental flights ...
Biologists 'trick' viruses into extinction
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Feb 12, 2007 |
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While human changes to the environment cause conservation biologists to worry about species extinction, Yale biologists are reversing the logic by trying to trap viruses in habitats that force their extinction, ...
Chimps used tools as early as the Stone Age: study
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Chimpanzees from West Africa were cracking nuts open using stone tools in prehistoric times, according to a study released Monday that suggests some chimp populations may have been using this kind of tool technology ...
