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Programming tools facilitate use of video game processors for defense needs

Programming tools facilitate use of video game processors for defense needs

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 3

Video gaming computers and video game consoles available today typically contain a graphics processing unit (GPU), which is very efficient at manipulating and displaying computer graphics. However, the unit's ...





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The plant cell's corset

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

We still have a lot to discover about the mechanism in plants that ensures cell growth in a specific direction. However it is clear that a structure of parallel protein tubes plays an important role. Simon Tindemans investigated ...


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Computer simulations strongly support new theory of Earth's core

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 08, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (64) | comments 3

Swedish researchers present in today’s Web edition of the journal Science evidence that their theory about the core of the earth is correct. Among other applications, the findings may be of significance for ou ...


Hypercubes Could Be Building Blocks of Nanocomputers

Hypercubes Could Be Building Blocks of Nanocomputers

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 01, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (82) | comments 4

Multi-dimensional structures called hypercubes may act as the building blocks for tomorrow’s nanocomputers – machines made of such tiny elements that they are dominated not by forces that we’re familiar with ...


Heavy Pyridine Crystallizes Differently

Heavy Pyridine Crystallizes Differently

Chemistry /

created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The nuclei of ordinary hydrogen atoms contain only a single proton. If a neutron is added, the hydrogen becomes deuterium. In principle, molecules that contain deuterium in place of hydrogen ...


Toshiba develops the world's fastest speed embedded DRAM technology

Toshiba develops the world's fastest speed embedded DRAM technology

Technology / Semiconductors

created Feb 06, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has realized the world's fastest circuit technology for embedded DRAM for System LSI, achieving a speed of 833MHz at 32Mb density. The technology will be applied ...


Sharp Achieves the World’s Highest Power Density for Direct Methanol Fuel Cells

Technology / Energy

created May 15, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 1

Sharp Corp. has achieved the world's highest power density, 0.3W/cc, for direct methanol fuel cells (DMFC) for mobile equipment. This new technology enables efficient power generation from a small cell volume. The use of ...


Sony Commercializes APS-C size CMOS Image Sensor with Industry-leading 12.47 Effective Megapixel Resolution

Sony Commercializes APS-C size CMOS Image Sensor with Industry-leading 12.47 Effective Megapixel Resolution

Electronics / Hardware

created Aug 20, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Sony today announced the commercialization of "IMX021", an APS-C size (diagonal: 28.40mm/Type 1.8) 12.47 effective megapixel ultra-high speed, high image quality CMOS image sensor designed to meet the increasing ...


Keeping Traditions in a Modern-Day Bedouin Village

Keeping Traditions in a Modern-Day Bedouin Village

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Mar 03, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

University of Arkansas researchers have used modern digital-mapping technology to uncover an ancient tradition still practiced by a Bedouin tribe that once roamed Jordan but now has settled into a modern village. ...


Crystallography reveals the 3-D structure of mammalian sperm receptor

Biology /

created Dec 04, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have determined the first 3D structure of ZP3, a protein essential for the interaction between the mammalian egg coat and sperm. The findings, presented in ...


Using light to move and trap DNA molecules

Using light to move and trap DNA molecules

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- A major goal of nanotechnology research is to create a "lab on a chip," in which a tiny biological sample would be carried through microscopic channels for processing. This could make possible ...



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