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New fossil plant discovery links Patagonia to New Guinea in a warmer past

New fossil plant discovery links Patagonia to New Guinea in a warmer past

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Fossil plants are windows to the past, providing us with clues as to what our planet looked like millions of years ago. Not only do fossils tell us which species were present before human-recorded history, ...


Touch screen gamble: which technology to use

Technology / Hi Tech

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Prompted partly by the iPhone's phenomenal popularity, consumers are demanding and likely to get a wider range of touch screens on many more electronic devices.


No ivory-billed woodpecker, but plenty of data

No ivory-billed woodpecker, but plenty of data

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- They have searched the old-growth forests of the Carolinas, the swamps of Arkansas, the woods of Alabama and Mississippi, and now the vast river of grass, mangrove, cypress and wildlife that ...


When palm trees gave way to spruce trees

When palm trees gave way to spruce trees

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 17, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 2

For climatologists, part of the challenge in predicting the future is figuring out exactly what happened during previous periods of global climate change.


53 million-year-old high Arctic mammals wintered in darkness

53 million-year-old high Arctic mammals wintered in darkness

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 74

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ancestors of tapirs and ancient cousins of rhinos living above the Arctic Circle 53 million years ago endured six months of darkness each year in a far milder climate than today that featured ...


Babies born during high pollen and mold seasons have greater odds of wheezing by age two

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Newborns whose first few months of life coincide with high pollen and mold seasons are at increased risk of developing early symptoms of asthma, suggests a new study led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.


New study finds glamorization of drugs in rap music jumped dramatically over 2 decades

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 01, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 3

A new study finds that references to illegal drug use in rap music jumped sixfold in the two decades since 1979, the year Sugar Hill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" hit the charts and introduced to a mainstream audience a music ...


Forests damaged by Katrina may contribute to global warming

Forests damaged by Hurricane Katrina become major carbon source

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 15, 2007 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Researchers led by biologist Jeffrey Chambers of Tulane University have determined that the losses inflicted by Hurricane Katrina on Gulf Coast forest trees are enough to cancel out a year’s worth of new tree ...


Ancient mammoth bones found in Florida

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Aug 25, 2007 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Florida researchers are studying the remains of an ancient mammoth found on the Seminole Tribe's Big Cypress Reservation.


Hungary uncovers 8 million-year-old trees

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Aug 03, 2007 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (89) | comments 0

Hungary will spare no expense to preserve 16 cypress trees, estimated to be 8 million-years-old, recently uncovered in a northern lignite mine.


For FTC, e-commerce means managing 'mice'

Technology / Internet

created Jul 25, 2006 | popularity 1 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Only on the Internet could a site hawking dancing hamster animations, accompanied by hamster-sung harmonies, be paid advertising royalties from corporate giants like Wal-Mart and American Express. But the future earning power ...


New clock generator for multiple chipsets

Electronics / Hardware

created May 03, 2006 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Cypress Semiconductor unveiled a Universal Clock Generator that supplies timing for multiple chipsets and next-generation processors.


Why Christmas trees are not extinct

Why Christmas trees are not extinct

Other Sciences /

created Dec 22, 2005 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Conifers such as Christmas trees suffer a severe plumbing problem. The "pipes" that carry water through firs, pines and other conifers are 10 times shorter than those in flowering trees. But a University of ...


LUPA-4000-M CMOS Image Sensor

High-End 4M pixels CMOS Image Sensor

Technology /

created Sep 29, 2004 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cypress Semiconductor Corp today announced commercial sampling of the LUPA-4000-M CMOS image sensor from recently acquired FillFactory NV. Developed to address the specific imaging needs of the professiona ...


Cypress’s New EZ-USB FX2LP Low Power USB 2.0 Controller Earns USB-IF Certification

Cypress’s New EZ-USB FX2LP Low Power USB 2.0 Controller Earns USB-IF Certification

Technology /

created Sep 15, 2004 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Industry's Smallest, Most Power-Efficient High-Speed Controller Enables Streaming Video, Mass Storage and Personal Media Players to Be Powered by the USB Bus Cypress Semiconductor Corp., the market leader ...