New Treasure Found off Namibia
	This time, the treasure emerged off the coast of Namibia. The 500-year old ship was filled with tons of copper ingots, elephant tusks, gold coins, coffin-sized timber fragments, plus the cannons. The discovery was made by Namdeb Diamond Corp., a joint venture of the government of Namibia and De Beers. The geologists were looking for diamonds off Namibia. "If you're mining on the coast, sooner or later you'll find a[ADMARK ... [read more >>]
	06 May 2008, 03:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Mine Your Cellphone for Gold and Silver Before Throwing It Away
	Retired consumer electronics appliances could bring you a fortune, even before recycling, if you decided to mine them for precious metals. The new trend is as scientific as possible, and even got a name: "Urban mining". The idea behind it is the fact that scrap parts hold significant amounts of gold, silver, copper, or precious gems such as iridium. We have previously reported about a man who ended up poisoned to de ... [read more >>]
	29 April 2008, 06:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Scythe Orochi: Meet the Largest CPU Cooler Ever
	Cooling specialist Scythe has just launched its newest CPU cooling behemoth. Called the Orochi, the monolithic cooling solution packs 1.155 kilograms of pure metal and is probably the largest CPU cooler in the world. Previously shown during the CeBIT expo in Hanover, the Orochi is inspired from the Japanese dragon fought by the warrior-god Susano-Oh. Scythe managed once again to make a statement on the CPU coolers market, and ... [read more >>]
	24 March 2008, 06:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Researchers Create New Copper Connection Technique
	The ever-powerful computing devices need more and more circuit connections, which ultimately translates in longer links between individual electronic components, fact that determines frequency loss and an overall drop in performance, partially canceling the technological advancements obtained over time. In computer microchips, this is mostly determined by the fact that vertical connections between chips and boards are made by melting solde ... [read more >>]
	12 February 2008, 08:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Oetzi, The Oldest Preserved Human Being: 5,300 Years Old
	At first sight, it looked like a crime place. A drought cadaver was lying face downward, half stuck in the ice. An accidental death or a crime? Or just another mountaineering victim at 3,200 m (10,660 ft) height in the Tirol Alps? The Ice Man was found in September 1991 by casualty by a couple of German mountaineers wandering on the Mount Similaun (in Oetztal Alps, at the border between Austria and Italy). The extremely warm summer in ... [read more >>]
	13 November 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

7,000 Years Ago European Women Dressed Sexy
	They may have lived during the "New Stone Age" (Neolithic), but according to European figurines which are 7,500 years old, women liked to look sexy even back then. Recent digging at the site of a settlement of Vinca culture, Europe's biggest known Neolithic civilization, on Plocnik (southern Serbia), uncovered a sophisticated prehistoric metropolis, with a developed taste for art and fashion and it appears now to be Euro ... [read more >>]
	13 November 2007, 06:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Scythe Cools Your Memories With The Kama Wing
	Ever wanted to squeeze just a little bit more performance from your computer but could not as the memory sub-system was just too unstable at high frequencies or voltages? Well, if this is the case, the new Scythe made cooler solutions for random access memory modules are just the thing for you. The cooling solutions manufacturing company Scythe just expanded its memory cooling line of products with two brand new Kama Wing cool ... [read more >>]
	25 September 2007, 02:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Asus Cools Your Quad Core CPU
	More powerful central processing units equal more heat dissipated so an efficient cooling system is a crucial part of a stable and performance oriented computer. After the release of its general use Vanquisher processor cooler Asus now officially announced the availability of a cooler specially designed for use with quad core processors, supporting bot AMD and Intel products. The new Asus processor cooler is named Silent Knigh ... [read more >>]
	06 September 2007, 03:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Great Vanquisher of CPU Generated Heat
	OCZ Technology Group announced the release of a brand new processor cooling solution, the OCZ Vanquisher CPU cooler which is intended to be used in conjunction with today's high end computing solutions. The much awaited continuation of the Vindicator processor cooler, the Vanquisher is made using a compact yet highly efficient design which makes it an enthusiast-grade thermal solution for the latest high performance processors. Tha ... [read more >>]
	31 August 2007, 07:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Copper and Silicone Are Obsolete
	Graphene is a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon and was really hard to separate from graphite in a laboratory until 2004, when researchers used nothing more than clear adhesive tape to break apart the countless layers of graphene from an everyday pencil. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy works now on a research project trying to find out how graphene's conductive proper ... [read more >>]
	25 July 2007, 02:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why Did Ötzi, the 'Iceman' Mummy, Die?
	This is the oldest European mummy, 5,300 years old, and the oldest ice mummy worldwide. The mummified, frozen body of Ötzi was discovered in 1991 by accident by two German tourists and named after the Ötztal region between Austria and Italy where it was found. The body, stuck in the Schnalstal glacier offered a lot of data about the European Copper Age. Ever since this discovery, everybody has wanted to know why the Ice ... [read more >>]
	07 June 2007, 05:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Iron Leads to Gold
	Could the humble iron make us rich? Swedish researchers tend to say yes, as they linked iron ore deposits to gold deposits. In northern Sweden, iron ore has been extracted for many centuries and today it is still mined from two places-Kirunavaara and Malmberget. Kirunavaara site has also given its name to the Kiruna apatite iron ore, an international denomination. Around the world, in countries like Chile and Sweden, copper and [AD ... [read more >>]
	28 May 2007, 06:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Superconducting Electric Motor
	The design of the electric motor, which converts electrical energy into mechanical energy, hasn't changed much since it was invented, some 50 years ago. New technological developments in the field of superconductors are about to change that. El Hadj Ailam and colleagues working at the Université Henri Poincaré in Nancy, France and the Center for Advanced Power Systems in Tallahassee, Florida, have been working on a new electric mo ... [read more >>]
	25 May 2007, 04:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

A 2,700 Years Old Fabric and the Troyan War
	A natural fabric is impossible to be preserved: being organic, in just a few years at most, bacteria decompose the material. In fact, all that is organic (wood, leather, paper) is out of archaeologists' reach. That's why Greek archaeologists were very surprised to discover a rare 2,700-year-old piece of fabric inside a cylindrical burial copper urn imitating the complex cremation of soldiers, described in Homer� ... [read more >>]
	10 May 2007, 05:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The First Gold of America
	When Columbus made his first steps on the American ground (or better said, Caribbean), his mind was set on an El Dorado, a realm of gold and silver riches. And indeed, they soon discovered two El Dorados: the Inca and the Aztec Empires. In 1532, Incas paid to Pizzaro, the conquistador of their empire, a ransom consisting in one chamber (of 22x17 ft (7.3x5.7m)) filled with gold and two with silver for their emperor, Atahu ... [read more >>]
	21 April 2007, 06:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Did People Pass from Stone to Metals?
	The crockery was the first technological process through which people handled high temperatures and complicate chemical reactions of oxidation and reduction. 8,000 years ago, European populations were using malachite (a copper oxide) to get colorants. Perhaps ancient people noticed the transformations suffered by this mineral in contact with the fire. At the end of the Neolithic (the last Stone Age), about 6,300 years ago, people from ... [read more >>]
	08 March 2007, 10:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia