• Technology

    Google's Replacement for HTTP Protocol to Make Web Browsing Twice as Fast

    By Jeremy Hsu Posted on 11.13.2009 10 Comments

    Google has scarcely stopped for a breather since launching its cloud-based Chrome OS as an alternative to PC and Mac operating systems. Now its Chromium group has announced an effort to replace the traditional HTTP web browser language with a new protocol that supposedly boosts Internet browsing by up to 55 percent.

    11.15.2009 at 09:36pm - Comment by darcon77

    "by up to 55 percent" != "twice as fast" it's half as fast. Twice as fast would be "by up to 200%" unless i'm missing something

  • Science

    Universe To End Sooner Than Previously Thought

    By Stuart Fox Posted on 10.8.2009 22 Comments

    While Robert Frost famously said that he prefers the world to end in fire, physicists have long predicted the universe will end with an icy sputter known as "heat death." Heat death occurs when the universe finally uses up all its energy, with all motion stopping and all the atoms in creation grinding to a halt. And, based on new calculations from a team of Australian physicists, it looks like heat death is far closer than previously thought.

    10.9.2009 at 01:14am - Comment by darcon77

    I don't believe all the matter and energy Black Holes consume is lost, I don't think any amount of energy in universe is lost. It's just converted to another type of energy. And I don't think Universe will end by energy deprivation. I think it will just tear itself up (big shred proponent here).

  • Science

    How Your Body Packs Two Meters of DNA Into a Six-Micron Cell Nucleus

    By Susannah F. Locke Posted on 10.8.2009 5 Comments

    I can't seem to manage to keep my iPod in my bag for a day without creating an awful tangle of headphones, but my body's cells can work with two meters of stringy DNA into a tiny nucleus without making a knot. The secret is a structure called a fractal globule, according to a research paper to be published tomorrow in the journal Science.

    10.9.2009 at 01:07am - Comment by darcon77

    Agree. I don't see the point of the article, since the little it conveyed we already knew... from daily life.

  • Technology

    The World's First Image of an Entire Sunspot's Structure

    By Posted on 10.6.2009 19 Comments

    The first computer-generated model of an entire sunspot—a magnetic anomaly on the surface of the sun—tracks the magnetic fields in the area, helping researchers figure out how the sun releases energy around the spots. At the dark center, or umbra, the field is so strong—about 1,000 times the solar average—that it blocks the solar gases that typically bubble to the surface.

    10.5.2009 at 03:11pm - Comment by darcon77

    Is that a news? I read about the same thing about 3 months ago.

  • Gadgets

    A Water Lens for a Better Camera

    By Jaya Jiwatram Posted on 9.24.2008 5 Comments

    The next time you take a trip to the water cooler, just think, what you're about to drink isn't just good for hydration; it makes for a very effective, energy-efficient lens, too. That's what researchers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have announced after designing and testing an adaptive liquid lens—comprised of a pair of water droplets—that captures 250 pictures per second.

    9.24.2008 at 10:56am - Comment by darcon77

    A what?

  • Science

    Ghost Heart

    By Elizabeth Svoboda Posted on 9.23.2008 9 Comments

    In late 2005, cardiac researcher Doris Taylor revived the dead. She rinsed rat hearts with detergent until the cells washed away and all that remained was a skeleton of tissue translucent as wax paper—a ghost heart, as Taylor calls it. She injected the scaffold with fresh heart cells from newborn rats. Then she waited.

    9.24.2008 at 10:51am - Comment by darcon77

    "Is it possible to take a cancerous organ of a deceased person and cleanse the organ of cells and then re-plant cells cancer free????" Theoretically yes, the person will be cancer-free, but unfortunately still deceased. They have yet to come up with the ways to reanimate brain, that dies after 5-10 minutes without oxygen.

  • Technology

    The Top-Secret Warplanes of Area 51

    By Posted on 1.22.2008 23 Comments

    For a closer look at the exotic aircraft the Air Force might be cooking up at Area 51, launch the photo gallery.

    6.19.2008 at 04:58pm - Comment by darcon77

    Did you just call USA a "short skinny guy"? I'd love to know who the huge 6'6" 300lb man is....

  • Science

    The Most Powerful Computer on Earth

    By Posted on 6.12.2008 15 Comments

    IBM has broken its own record of computer processing speed by pushing its newest supercomputer past the petaflop barrier. The Roadrunner, a massive machine occupying 6,000 square feet of space, this week achieved a peak of 1.026 petaflops, or just over one million billion calculations per second. Just ten years ago, the fastest supercomputer in the world would have taken 20 years to finish a problem the Roadrunner is capable of finishing in a week.

    6.13.2008 at 11:05am - Comment by darcon77

    One TriBlade has 2 AMDs and 4 Cell chips. And the total count of processors would be over 6000 for AMD and over 12000 for Cell Chips. 18,000 processors...

  • Science

    The Most Powerful Computer on Earth

    By Posted on 6.12.2008 15 Comments

    IBM has broken its own record of computer processing speed by pushing its newest supercomputer past the petaflop barrier. The Roadrunner, a massive machine occupying 6,000 square feet of space, this week achieved a peak of 1.026 petaflops, or just over one million billion calculations per second. Just ten years ago, the fastest supercomputer in the world would have taken 20 years to finish a problem the Roadrunner is capable of finishing in a week.

    6.13.2008 at 11:02am - Comment by darcon77

    Don't remember the exact numbers, but it has arround 3500 Blade Servers that have 1 AMD processor and 2 Cell Chip each. So total Processor count is well over 3000. I bet in 10 more years our home computers will have stats close to this one if they manage to advance the Silicon-Germanium technology.



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