Intel’s new chip will have the same performance as machines that required 10,000 chips during the last decade.
A chip with 80 processing cores and capable of more than a trillion calculations per second (teraflop) has been unveiled by
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), whose launch is planned for 2013, will be able to see further and better than Hubble currently does, and will study the first stars and galaxies that formed just after the Big Bang.…
Computer-assisted functional magnetic resonance imaging allowed scientists to reveal the intentions of subjects before they actually acted. This new method may be able to help paralyzed patients in the future.
Every day we plan numerous actions, such as to
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From testosterone boxers to dopamine earrings, Made With Molecules will provide you with a perfect present for your scientist partner in love. You can even find there the P-E-A-C-E peptide card for other occasions.
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An international seed vault will soon be built on the Norwegian island of Svalbard (Spitzberg) to preserve all the seeds of food crops worldwide. It has been designed to withstand a global climatic catastrophe and will allow the retrieval…
At Washington University in St. Louis a seismologist has made the first 3-D model of seismic wave damping – diminishing – deep in the Earth’s mantle and has revealed the existence of an underground water reservoir.
Michael E. Wysession,
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The presence of a male-killing bacterium in populations of Hypolimnas bolina butterflies affects the mating system. Contrarily to expectations, the reduction of the number of males incites the females to mate more often and with more partners.
A study
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Whereas the top management of large pharmaceutical concerns sets up rigid structures that stifle creativity, the cinematographic industry should be an example of outsourcing talents and integrating efficient working teams.
The answer to stagnating R&D can be found in
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A new "truth-telling" industry is emerging in the US which uses brain scans to determine whether or not people are lying. But experts are already questioning the ethics and validity of such tests.
Carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that has become a bane of modern society, may have saved Earth from freezing over early in the planet's history, according to the first detailed laboratory analysis of the world's oldest sedimentary rocks.
I’m a little shocked that this bit of news didn’t get a whole lot more media attention. It looks like the evil drug companies aren’t going to be happy, but cancer victims and their families now have a reason to…
Leave it to the French to cause a revolution. I wonder if the US will open up Area 51 one of these days to public tours…not…
PARIS (Reuters) – The French space agency is to publish its archive of UFO
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