News tagged with core
A glimpse at the Earth's crust deep below the Atlantic
Long-term variations in volcanism help explain the birth, evolution and death of striking geological features called oceanic core complexes on the ocean floor, says geologist Dr Bram Murton of the National ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 12, 2009 |
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California's Ancient Kelp Forest
(PhysOrg.com) -- The kelp forests off southern California are considered to be some of the most diverse and productive ecosystems on the planet, yet a new study indicates that today's kelp beds are less extensive and lush ...
Nov 10, 2009 |
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Findings show nanomedicine promising for treating spinal cord injuries
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Purdue University have discovered a new approach for repairing damaged nerve fibers in spinal cord injuries using nano-spheres that could be injected into the blood shortly ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 08, 2009 |
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Past climate of the northern Antarctic Peninsular informs global warming debate
The seriousness of current global warming is underlined by a reconstruction of climate at Maxwell Bay in the South Shetland Islands of the Antarctic Peninsula over approximately the last 14,000 years, which ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 06, 2009 |
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Rapid supernova could be new class of exploding star
(PhysOrg.com) -- An unusual supernova rediscovered in seven-year-old data may be the first example of a new type of exploding star, possibly from a binary star system where helium flows from one white dwarf ...
Nov 05, 2009 |
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Newly drilled ice cores may be the longest taken from the Andes
Researchers spent two months this summer high in the Peruvian Andes and brought back two cores, the longest ever drilled from ice fields in the tropics.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 02, 2009 |
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The Ring Nebula
The diversity of colours, shapes, and sizes of planetary nebulae make them fascinating objects. In this photo release Calar Alto presents a rather unique view combining both optical and near-infrared data ...
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Previously Unknown Volcanic Eruption Helped Trigger Cold Decade
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of chemists from the U.S. and France has found compelling evidence of a previously undocumented large volcanic eruption that occurred exactly 200 years ago, in 1809.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 29, 2009 |
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AMD Announces Eight New Athlon II Processors
(PhysOrg.com) -- AMD announced today eight new, low cost, Athlon II processors to their Athlon II processor family.
Oct 20, 2009 |
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As Greenland melts
Not that long ago - the blink of a geologic eye - global temperatures were so warm that ice on Greenland could have been hard to come by. Today, the largest island in the world is covered with ice 1.6 miles ...
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Arctic lake sediments show warming, unique ecological changes in recent decades
An analysis of sediment cores indicates that biological and chemical changes occurring at a remote Arctic lake are unprecedented over the past 200,000 years and likely are the result of human-caused climate ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Intel's Atom CE 4100 SoC Will Transform Internet TV (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- At the IDF event, in Santa Clara, California, Intel announced the debut of their newest System-on-Chip (SoC), the Intel Atom processor CE4100. The CE4100 SoC is designed exclusively to facilitate ...
Sep 25, 2009 |
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Intel Unveils Fastest Laptop Chips Ever With the New Intel Core i7 Mobile Processor
Intel Corporation introduced its revolutionary Intel Core i7 Mobile Processor and Intel Core i7 Mobile Processor Extreme Edition today, bringing Intel’s award-winning and super-fast Nehalem microarchitecture ...
Sep 23, 2009 |
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Moore's Law Marches on at Intel
Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini today displayed a silicon wafer containing the world's first working chips built on 22nm process technology. The 22nm test circuits include both SRAM memory as well as ...
Sep 22, 2009 |
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IBM Announces Highest Performance Embedded Processor for System-on-Chip Designs
IBM today announced the industry's highest performance, highest throughput processor for system-on-chip (SoC) product families in the communication, storage, consumer, and aerospace and defense markets.
Sep 15, 2009 |
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