New Xilinx MicroBlaze Soft Processor Increases Clock Frequency By 25 Percent May 17, 2005 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Xilinx, Inc. today announced immediate availability of the performance-optimized 4.00 version of its MicroBlaze soft processor. The 32-bit RISC core now operates at frequencies up to 200 MHz in Virtex-4 FPGAs delivering an ... | |
Violent video games leave teenagers emotionally aroused November 28, 2006 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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A new study has found that adolescents who play violent video games may exhibit lingering effects on brain function, including increased activity in the region of the brain that governs emotional arousal and decreased activity ... | |
 Water forms floating 'bridge' when exposed to high voltage September 28, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 645 vote(s)
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While it's one of the most important and abundant chemical compounds on Earth, water is still a puzzle to scientists. Much research has been done to uncover the structure of water beyond the H2O ... | |
 Professor Predicts Human Time Travel This Century April 04, 2006 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 1294 vote(s)
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With a brilliant idea and equations based on Einstein’s relativity theories, Ronald Mallett from the University of Connecticut has devised an experiment to observe a time traveling neutron in a circulating ... | |
 Hybrid Cars -- Pros and Cons January 19, 2006 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 580 vote(s)
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If you listen to the makers, hybrid cars are the best invention since sliced bread. While there are many reasons to buy a hybrid car, including a new tax incentive for US owners, it helps to have a good understanding ... | |
 German schoolboy, 13, corrects NASA's asteroid figures: paper April 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 315 vote(s)
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A 13-year-old German schoolboy corrected NASA's estimates on the chances of an asteroid colliding with Earth, a German newspaper reported Tuesday, after spotting the boffins had miscalculated. | |
 Free-electron laser targets fat April 09, 2006 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 75 vote(s)
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Fat may have finally met its match: laser light. Researchers at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson ... | |
 Transistor laser functions as non-linear electronic switch, processor February 06, 2006 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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The transistor laser invented by scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has now been found to possess fundamental non-linear characteristics that are new to a transistor and permit its ... | |
 Electronic tattoo display runs on blood February 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 374 vote(s)
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Jim Mielke's wireless blood-fueled display is a true merging of technology and body art. At the recent Greener Gadgets Design Competition, the engineer demonstrated a subcutaneously implanted touch-screen ... | |
Physicist to Present New Exact Solution of Einstein's Gravitational Field Equation February 11, 2006 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 960 vote(s)
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New antigravity solution will enable space travel near speed of light by the end of this century, he predicts.
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 Traffic jam mystery solved by mathematicians December 19, 2007 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 355 vote(s)
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Mathematicians from the University of Exeter have solved the mystery of traffic jams by developing a model to show how major delays occur on our roads, with no apparent cause. Many traffic jams leave drivers ... | |
New trigonometry is a sign of the times September 16, 2005 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 54 vote(s)
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Mathematics students have cause to celebrate. A University of New South Wales academic, Dr Norman Wildberger, has rewritten the arcane rules of trigonometry and eliminated sines, cosines and tangents from the trigonometric ... | |
Coffee is number one source of antioxidants August 29, 2005 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 98 vote(s)
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Coffee provides more than just a morning jolt; that steaming cup of java is also the number one source of antioxidants in the U.S. diet, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Scranton (Pa.). Their study ... | |
TDK Announces 100GB Blue Laser Disc Technology June 06, 2005 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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TDK has developed a prototype recordable Blu-ray Disc with revolutionary 100GB capacity. By far the most advanced optical media ever developed, the prototype 100GB bare Blu-ray Disc doubles both the capacity and recording ... | |
 How-to book published on laser beam-shaping applications October 27, 2005 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Following up on their well-received first book, Laser Beam Shaping: Theory and Techniques, Sandia National Laboratories researchers Fred Dickey and Scott Holswade have edited (with David Shealy of the ... | |
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