News tagged with ii


Virtual studies answer real questions

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 14, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

"Are online games just for male teenagers?" About 80 percent of "Ever Quest II" players are male, but the hardcore players are women. And, almost all players are adults.


AMD Phenom II X4

AMD's Phenom II Takes On Intel's Core 2 Processors

Electronics / Hardware

created Feb 09, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (8) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- AMD has added two new Phenom II desktop chips to their product line. The Phenom II Dragon line desktop processors use AMD's new 45-nanometer technology and consists both of a triple-core (X3) ...


Researchers find potential new target for hypertension treatment

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Huijing Xia, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate in the lab of Eric Lazartigues, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, is the lead author on a paper reporting that a recently ...


Plant polymerases IV and V are special forms of Polymerase II

Plant polymerases IV and V are special forms of Polymerase II

Biology /

created Jan 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's a little like finding out that Superman is actually Clark Kent. A team of biologists at Washington University in St. Louis has discovered that two vital cellular components, nuclear RNA ...


Scientists discover new way in which ubiquitin modifies transcriptional machinery

Chemistry /

created Dec 18, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

During gene transcription – the process inside the nucleus of cells by which DNA, the genetic material, is copied into RNA molecules – a large, ever-changing multiprotein complex is enlisted to assist the DNA-copying enzyme ...


ASUS Rampage II Extreme Motherboard

ASUS Rampage II Extreme Motherboard Set i7 Overclocking Record

Electronics / Hardware

created Dec 04, 2008 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (31) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- With the release of the Intel Core i7, there is excitement every where about overclocking records being broken. The ASUS Rampage II Extreme motherboard supports the newest Intel platform and ...


Fruit Fly Chromosomes Show Condensin II Effect

Keeping chromosomes from cuddling up

Biology /

created Nov 27, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

If chromosomes snuggle up too closely at the wrong times, the results can be genetic disaster. Now researchers have found the molecular machines in fruit flies that yank chromosomes, the DNA-carrying structures, ...


AMD 2009 Desktop Platforms

AMD Phenom II Quad Core Overclocked to 6.3Ghz

Electronics / Hardware

created Nov 24, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (69) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- AMD has been showing off their soon to be released 45nm "Deneb" desktop chips which have been overclocked to 6.3Ghz. Unless you can get your hands on some liquid nitrogen, don´t expect to ...


Garlic chemical tablet treats diabetes I and II orally

Chemistry /

created Nov 19, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (31) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A drug based on a chemical found in garlic can treat diabetes types I and II when taken as a tablet, a study in the new Royal Society of Chemistry journal Metallomics says.


NOAA-N Prime Spacecraft

NOAA-N prime satellite arrives at Vandenberg for launch

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 04, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The latest polar-orbiting operational environmental weather satellite developed by NASA for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, called NOAA-N Prime, arrived Tuesday by C-5A military ...


Molecule stops DNA replication in its tracks

Molecule stops DNA replication in its tracks

Biology /

created Oct 20, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- When a dividing cell duplicates its genetic material, a molecular machine called a sliding clamp travels along the DNA double helix, tethering the proteins that perform the replication. Researchers ...


Beyond 3G -- ultra-fast mobile radio networks of the future

Technology / Telecom

created Aug 06, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Today’s growing third generation (3G) of mobile data services are only a taste of what is to come. Now, European researchers are paving the way to a world where ultra-fast internet access is available from ...


Superfluid-superconductor relationship is detailed

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 02, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (28) | comments 3

Scientists have studied superconductors and superfluids for decades. Now, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have drawn the first detailed picture of the way a superfluid influences the behavior of a superconductor. ...


Next-gen broadband at your service

Technology / Telecom

created Jul 28, 2008 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Faster, smarter broadband networks are on the way, thanks to European research. The next step will be to usher in compelling services for European consumers. Already companies are eager to get their hands on the technologies ...


Dutch researchers take flight with three-gram 'dragonfly'

Dutch researchers take flight with three-gram 'dragonfly'

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 22, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (35) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- On Wednesday 23 July, TU Delft will be presenting the minute DelFly Micro air vehicle. This successor to the DelFly I and II weighs barely 3 grams, and with its flapping wings is very similar ...