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AMD Delivers New Platform for Ultrathin Notebooks

Electronics / Hardware

created Jan 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

AMD today announced the availability of the AMD platform for ultrathin notebooks, enabling exceedingly thin and light OEM designs with rich entertainment capabilities at an affordable price. Previously codenamed "Yukon," ...





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Archaeologists find cache of tablets in 2,700-year old Turkish temple

Archaeologists find cache of tablets in 2,700-year old Turkish temple

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Excavations led by a University of Toronto archaeologist at the site of a recently discovered temple in southeastern Turkey have uncovered a cache of cuneiform tablets dating back to the Iron ...


Honda's 'Personal-Neo Urban Transport' Concept

Honda's 'Personal-Neo Urban Transport' Concept

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The Honda Personal-Neo Urban Transport (P-NUT) design study model demonstrates a futuristic concept for an ultra-compact and sophisticated city coupe, American Honda Motor announced at the 2009 Los Angeles ...


Researchers identify personality traits

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 03, 2009 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine's (BUSM) New England Centenarian Study have noted specific personality traits associated with healthy aging and longevity amongst the children of centenarians. The work ...


The story of X -- evolution of a sex chromosome

The story of X -- evolution of a sex chromosome

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Move over, Y chromosome - it's time X got some attention. In the first evolutionary study of the chromosome associated with being female, University of California, Berkeley, biologist Doris ...


Report exposes loopholes in gun-control laws

Report exposes loopholes in gun-control laws

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (9) | comments 4

Gun shows and the lack of uniform gun-control laws provide easy access to guns that can be used for criminal purposes, according to a new report released today from the UC Davis Violence Prevention Research ...


Baby with two heads born in Philippines

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Doctors at a Philippine hospital were Wednesday trying to save a baby girl born with two heads, officials said.


Amazon offers to replace Orwell books on Kindles

Technology / Internet

created Sep 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- Amazon.com Inc. is offering free books or $30 to Kindle customers whose copies of the George Orwell novels "1984" and "Animal Farm" were deleted from their electronic reading devices in July.


Standard chemo works better against metastatic BRCA1/2 breast cancer than against sporadic tumors

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 17, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The first study to investigate the effects of chemotherapy on metastatic breast cancer in women with the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation has shown that standard chemotherapy works better in these patients than in women without ...


 Artist's impression of ESA's Hildalgo spacecraft. Credit: ESA

Near Earth Objects - what lies ahead?

Space & Earth /

created Nov 28, 2005 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Telescope facilities across the world are watching the skies for rocky remnants from outer space on a collision course with planet Earth. Currently one or two of these so called 'Near Earth Objects' [NEOs] ...


Revised asteroid scale aids understanding of impact risk

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created Apr 12, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Astronomers led by an MIT professor have revised the scale used to assess the threat of asteroids and comets colliding with Earth to better communicate those risks with the public. The overall goal is to provide easy-to-understand inf ...



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