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Birds Learn To Fly With A Little Help From Their Ancestors
August 14, 2007 A researcher has discovered that the reason birds learn to fly so easily is because latent memories may have been left behind by their ancestors. It is widely known that birds learn to fly through ... > full story -
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National Science Board Approves Funds For Petascale Computing Systems
August 10, 2007 The National Science Foundation plans to fund the acquisition and deployment of the world's most powerful "leadership-class" supercomputer, proposed in response to NSF's "Track 1" supercomputing ... > full story -
NCAR Adds Resources To TeraGrid
August 10, 2007 Researchers who use the TeraGrid, the nation's most comprehensive and advanced infrastructure for open scientific research, can now leverage the computing resources of a powerful, 2048-processor ... > full story -
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Unleashed Computer Power
August 6, 2007 Supercomputing-like performance could be available for countless scientific applications through an approach that exploits the power of reconfigurable computing using field-programmable gate array. ... > full story -
Supercomputing On Demand: New Resource for Rapid Response
July 11, 2007 Somewhere in Southern California a large earthquake strikes without warning, and the news media and the public clamor for information about the temblor -- Where was the epicenter? How large was the ... > full story -
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Maryland Professor Creates Desktop Supercomputer Prototype
June 27, 2007 A prototype of what may be the next generation of personal computers has been developed by researchers in the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering. Capable of computing ... > full story -
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Scientists Create Electron Surf Machine
June 12, 2007 Scientists have found a new way to control the movement of individual electrons -- they are making them ride the crests of energy waves like ... > full story -
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'Not So Fast, Supercomputers,' Say Software Programmers
May 25, 2007 The fastest of the fastest computers - supercomputers used at national research centers, research universities and major corporations - will soon gain even more performance by taking advantage of ... > full story -
A Mighty Number Falls
May 21, 2007 Mathematicians and number buffs have their records. And at last, an international team has broken a long-standing one in an impressive feat of calculation. Mathematicians have just reached the end of ... > full story -
Physicists Plan To Pop Protons
May 18, 2007 The world's largest science experiment, a physics experiment designed to determine the nature of matter, will produce a mountain of data. And because the world's physicists cannot move to the ... > full story
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