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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 weblog

(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 ...


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 ...


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.


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. ...


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 weblog

(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 ...


A new look at how genes unfold to enable their expression

A new look at how genes unfold to enable their expression

Biology /

created Jul 14, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell researchers have uncovered surprising new information about the process by which genes are unwrapped and exposed so that they can be expressed.


Link between unexploded munitions in oceans and cancer-causing toxins determined

Link between unexploded munitions in oceans and cancer-causing toxins determined

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 18, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (15) | comments 12

During a research trip to Puerto Rico, ecologist James Porter took samples from underwater nuclear bomb target USS Killen, expecting to find evidence of radioactive matter - instead he found a link to cancer. ...


Pages of the Codex Sinaiticus are pictured on a laptop in Westminster Cathedral, central London

World's oldest surviving Bible published online

Technology / Internet

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

About 800 pages of the world's oldest surviving Bible have been pieced together and published on the Internet for the first time, experts in Britain said Monday.


New piece found in the puzzle of epigenetics

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

For many years scientists have known that the numerous biological functions of an organism are not regulated solely by the DNA sequence of its genes: Superordinate regulatory mechanisms exist that contribute to determining ...


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 weblog

(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) ...


NOAA locates US Navy ship sunk in World War II battle

NOAA Locates U.S. Navy Ship Sunk in World War II Battle

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A NOAA-led research mission has located and identified the final resting place of the YP-389, a U.S. Navy patrol boat sunk approximately 20 miles off the coast of Cape Hatteras, NC, by a German ...


Visualizing the Aztecs

Visualizing the Aztecs

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Anyone who has visited the ancient ruins of great civilizations can appreciate the difficulty of visualizing the buildings at their peak. Today's visitor to the British Museum can see structures ...


Father of China's space tech program dies at 98

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 31, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2

(AP) -- Qian Xuesen, a rocket scientist known as the father of China's space technology program, died Saturday in Beijing, the official Xinhua News Agency said. He was 98.


Submersibles discover top-secret Japanese submarines

Submersibles discover top-secret Japanese submarines

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two World War II Japanese submarines, designed with revolutionary technology to attack the U.S. mainland, have been discovered off the Hawaiian coast of Oʻahu. They are the I-14, which ...


Gene transcribing machine takes halting, backsliding trip along the DNA

Gene transcribing machine takes halting, backsliding trip along the DNA

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The body's nanomachines that read our genes don't run as smoothly as previously thought, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, scientists.