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Chip manufacturer Sun Microsystems has just received a $44 million contract from the Pentagon to research on viable light replacements for the standard copper interconnects between chips. According to the chip manufacturer, the Sun researchers have found a method to reconnect the chips in such a manner that would all... |
24 March 2008
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JAXA launched the Hinode solar space observatory in September 2006 and is equipped with several instruments such as the solar optical telescope, an X-ray telescope and an EUV imaging spectrometer with which it can conduct investigations on the Sun's atmosphere but also on its interior, in order to establish the ... |
20 March 2008
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It is the brightest star on the night sky, however if one is to go outside on a clear night it wouldn't appear very different from the other bright stars located in the vicinity of our solar system, thus people often have difficulties locating it. This week you once again have the opportunity to go outside and ... |
15 March 2008
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The first phase of the build of the world's largest nuclear fusion reactor experiment, Wendelstein 7-X, has been completed with the installation of the first two half-modules, thus achieving 20 percent of the assembly of the inner core. All essential components of the reactor are ready for assembly, but even so,... |
14 March 2008
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There have been some voices lately blaming global warming on the increased solar activity, however this claim is mostly based on pure speculation rather than scientific analysis, says a recent study verifying the role of the Sun in the current climatic changes which take place all over the world. Computer simulations... |
13 March 2008
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The beginning of 2008 is without a doubt synonymous with Microsoft's interoperability drive. And the Redmond company seems to be committed to continually investing in this newly found direction, making yet another step toward the interoperability altering together with Sun. On March 10, the two companies inaugur... |
11 March 2008
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While being the most massive object in the solar system, the Sun may also hide one of the biggest mysteries in the solar system. The Sun is an average-sized main sequence star about 5 billion years old, currently in its mid-life, with a surface temperature approximated at about 6,000 degrees Celsius. Much of the ligh... |
7 March 2008
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The universe is certainly not empty, that's a fact, but its not very dense either. Today, the visible universe consists mostly of empty space, void, while ordinary matter accounts for only 4 percent of the total mass. So where is the rest of 95 percent of the universe's mass? In dark energy and dark matter,... |
6 March 2008
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Take a good look at the picture of this nebula, this is how our solar system will look like in about 5 billion years or so. NGC 2371's glowing bubble of gas surrounding a white dwarf is a planetary nebula probably resulted in the explosion of an average star, relatively similar to the Sun. All that is left of th... |
4 March 2008
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Following the steps of their fellow colleagues form the European Space Agency, NASA also has in plan to implement a program to predict the space weather determined by the activity of the closest star to Earth - the Sun. Lying just over 150 million kilometer from Earth, the Sun, with a diameter about 100 times that of... |
4 March 2008
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How would we know when the winter comes, if it weren't for the seasons on Earth? One might say, well if there aren't any seasons, why would we even want to know such information? Let's say its kind of a mental exercise. The best way of finding out what season the Earth is in is by tracking the motion o... |
1 March 2008
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The European Space Agency's Venus Monitoring Camera, or VMC for short, surprised in the summer of last year what seems to be a bright haze that appeared and disappeared in Venus' atmosphere in a time interval of only a few days. The region where the feature was observed by the VMC is located near the southe... |
28 February 2008
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The newly discovered solar system lies 5,000 light years away from Earth and seems to contain two gas giants slightly smaller that the two biggest planets in our solar system, Jupiter and Saturn, evidence that solar systems similar to our own might be more abundant in the Milky Way than previously thought. One of the... |
28 February 2008
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If you think our Sun is a big star, you've seen nothing! Behemoths as large as 120 solar masses lie all around the universe. Theory predicts that stars cannot grow larger than 150 times the mass of the Sun, either that or something drastic must happen, as stellar evolution models cannot explain such objects. Two... |
28 February 2008
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On Earth, we depend on the behavior of electrons every day; we can do nothing without the help of electricity. But in space, electrons are no good for us. Powerful electromagnetic pulses can knock a computer out in an instant if not protected, not to mention of radiation poisoning caused by electrons speeding at velo... |
27 February 2008
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It's no secret now. Planets, stars may vary their magnetic fields so severely that could eventually reverse poles. Magnetic north becomes south and vice versa. Geologic evidences strongly suggest that even our planet could have reversed its poles a number of times in the past. The Sun's magnetic field orien... |
27 February 2008
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Server manufacturer Sun Microsystems signed an educational, three-year partnership with the Chinese Ministry of Education. The new agreement aims at improving the quality of education in chip design using Sun's technology included in the Sparc processors. The agreement stipulates that at least 100 professors wil... |
27 February 2008
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Forget about global warming, the ice ages, asteroids or any other impending disaster waiting to happen. Earth will burn! Literally! Astronomers approximate the age of the Sun to a rough 5 billion years and is mostly believed that it will continue to burn hydrogen at least as much time before becoming too unstable to ... |
27 February 2008
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Server manufacturer Sun Microsystems has involuntarily posted on its website classified information regarding its upcoming server platforms built on Xeon Dunnington and Nehalem architectures. More to the point, the slides Intel handed Sun back at the International Solid-State Semiconductor Conference ended up on Sun&... |
25 February 2008
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If you have missed it, you will have to wait for the next one until 2010. The eclipse has been visible from all locations in the United States, but in the Oregon and northern California coasts it coincided with the moon rise. And no special equipment was required for seeing this spectacle. Total moon eclipses take pl... |
21 February 2008
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Polar lights (aurorae) have been described since Antiquity. Aristotle and Pliny wrote about the fear triggered by the arctic aurora, which people thought to forecast great adversities. Often, these red lights were taken as coming from a large fire. During the Roman emperor Tiberius, Roman cohorts run to save the Osti... |
20 February 2008
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The Aztec Empire was conquered by Spaniards at the beginning of the 16th century, but the Nahuatl tradition still speaks about the Aztec tradition of the 5 Suns. The current Sun was preceded by 4 Suns, each one meaning a distinct temporal cycle. Thus, we are now in the fifth cycle. The First Sun, named Four Jaguars, ... |
19 February 2008
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Sun Microsystems has employed Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. to build its upcoming multi-core, 450-nanometer processors. This might be seen as the end of a long partnership with Sun's original foundry, Texas Instruments. The latter decided that would collaborate with other chip designers on its process d... |
19 February 2008
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Stonehenge represents one of the most beautiful prehistoric places worldwide, located on the plain of Salisbury, about 130 km (80 mi) off London. Why was it raised there? The assembly was not formed just of the megaliths we see today, but it also comprised a circular fortification and an odd ring made of filled holes... |
15 February 2008
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Server manufacturer Sun Microsystems introduced an UltraSparc T2 rack-mount server pitched at telecommunications companies: the Sun Netra T5220. The server has been unveiled at the Mobile World Congress, in Barcelona, and comes with the Solaris 10 operating system. The Sparc T2 processor is built on the Niagara arc... |
14 February 2008
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Temperature can have an unlimited increase but it cannot drop below -273.15o C (0 absolute). Every minute, each square cm of the Earth's surface receives about 2 calories from the Sun. The human body too produces heat, following the burning of organic chemicals. In 1620, Francis Bacon stated that movement is the... |
14 February 2008
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Electricity was never cheap, yet the restrictions and regulations imposed as environmental measures make it much more expensive. Green computers cut the energy requirements, but there is more to be done in order to keep the electricity bill at a minimum.Server manufacturer Sun Microsystems estimates increased custome... |
14 February 2008
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Sun Microsystems has just announced that it has acquired German desktop virtualization vendor Innotek GmbH. The deal is the first step in a Sun's developing its own xVM server virtualization platform. Virtualization seems to be more than a buzzword and is constantly gaining popularity with businesses, as it offe... |
13 February 2008
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Chip manufacturer Intel has announced earlier this week world's first processor to feature two billion transistors on the die. Called "Tukwila", the chip is part of the Itanium family and has a thermal envelope of 170W.The members of Intel's Itanium team yesterday took the floor and came with further juicy ... |
8 February 2008
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Sun Microsystems has announced that it has re-scheduled the launch date for its Rock processor a year later. The next generation of the company's UltraSPARC server chip was delayed to the second half of 2009 in order to allow the company to perform additional, extensive tests. The company's initial estimati... |
8 February 2008
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It may look like the stars live for ever and never change position in the sky or even that planets have extremely precise orbits, but the truth is anything but that. That's the reason why a team of astronomers from the St Mary University in Canada are proposing a redefinition of the astronomical unit. The scient... |
7 February 2008
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Processor designers have agreed upon the fact that multi-core processors will dominate the market in the upcoming years, but failed in achieving consensus on how to implement them. The discussions took place at yesterday's International Solid State Circuits Conference, with participation from senior chip designe... |
7 February 2008
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The ongoing International Solid State Circuits Conference unveiled some extremely juicy details about Intel's products and roadmap, and I'm sure that the party is far from being over. However, Intel may be an important guest, but let's not underestimate the other participants. Sun, for example is less ... |
5 February 2008
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Sun Microsystems announced that its Project Blackbox has already started shipping. This time, they meant it, since the blackbox is in fact a mobile datacenter, built inside a big container, similar to those that usually ship smuggled merchandise and Chinese illegal immigrants. The datacenter is delivered at the buyer... |
30 January 2008
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Lately, astronomers using the Very Large Telescope Interferometer have been able to probe parts of the material disk around a growing star, in order to determine how massive stars collect gas before becoming main sequence stars. The targeted object was a star in the Monoceros constellation, dubbed MWC 147. This parti... |
30 January 2008
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A 432-acre former campus belonging to Sun Microsystems has been the topic on most of Denver's business savvy people's lips in the weekend. It was bought by someone, but the details were kept so secretive that not even the Associated Press could find out who it was. "We don't even know it is a tech comp... |
30 January 2008
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The upcoming International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco has rushed the major CPU manufacturers into detailing upon their new technologies that are being cooked as we speak. The ISSCC is one of the largest events in the chip design industry and the showcased products become reality within a few mon... |
29 January 2008
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PC and server vendor Dell last week announced the availability of a new blade chassis and server. It seems that each time a new server kicks in, the allegedly perfect equilibrium between the major server players (HP, IBM, Dell and Sun) snaps and all hell breaks lose.This is somewhat normal, as the server business is ... |
29 January 2008
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For those of you who are looking for unique images on the night sky, since tonight you can see how the closest planet to Earth, Venus, and the largest planet in the solar system, the gas giant Jupiter, slowly draw together to create some of the brightest systems visible this year. Don't worry though, the two are... |
25 January 2008
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All of a sudden, it started raining with asteroids! No wonder, astronomers estimate that there are about 7,000 such rocks, discovered and undiscovered, orbiting around the Sun and periodically coming through the vicinity of the Earth. Because they are so small in size, many less than 150 meters in diameter, astronome... |
25 January 2008
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The first solar eclipse of the new year will take place on Thursday 7 February, will be a partial eclipse and unfortunately can only be seen by part of the residents of the southern hemisphere. Scientists predict that the shadow cast by the Moon will appear over the Antarctic continent and travel towards Australia an... |
23 January 2008
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For the first time, physicists have been able to make a link between the magnetic waves on the Sun's surface and its increased atmospheric temperature. The so-called Alfven waves are capable of determining massive differences in temperature between the surface and the corona, some exceeding a ratio of one hundre... |
23 January 2008
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More than two years ago, before Pluto was demoted from its status of planet to that of minor planet, it was still considered the most remote planet from the Sun. Or, was it? If you look closer to the orbits of Pluto and Neptune, you might observe something unexpected. Pluto occasionally comes closer to the Sun than N... |
22 January 2008
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Sun Microsystems today announced that it will purchase MySQL AB, the developing company of the fastest growing open source database solution for approximately $1 billion.Thanks to the integration with Sun, the commercial appeal of MySQL's offerings will greatly increase. Through Sun's channels MySQL will ga... |
16 January 2008
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The beginning of the 24th solar cycle, announced by the appearance of the first sunspot in the early days of the new year, caught the Ulysses spacecraft just over the north pole of the Sun. This is the first spacecraft to view the Sun's north pole in the first stages of a solar cycle. The Ulysses spacecraft is t... |
16 January 2008
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We are consuming the fossil fuels at a rate that will deplete them by the end of this century. For a long time, it has been thought that atomic energy would be a solution, but the Cernobyl event warned about the immense risks coming with this source of energy. Solar energy would be a more secure and no-cost alternati... |
15 January 2008
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Unbelievable as it may seem, one of the most closest planets to Earth may pose some of the deepest mysteries about the solar system. Mercury, the smallest of all the planets in the solar system, having the closest orbit to the Sun, is the least studied of all. More than half of the planet's surface is not yet ca... |
14 January 2008
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HP has made quite a fortune from selling Intel Itanium-powered servers. That is why the company should be worried, as rival IBM predicts that the chip manufacturer will phase the Itanium processor in the near future, as it tends to be less and less competitive on the market."The end of life for Itanium will occur in ... |
10 January 2008
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Is the sun good or bad for your health? A new research made at the U.S. Department of Energy, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and published in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" points that what you gain with moderately increased exposure to sunlight (i.e. vitamin D, involved in preventing cancers... |
8 January 2008
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On December 11 last year, the SOHO spacecraft observed a small magnetic knot on the surface of the Sun. However, no visible sunspots have been detected lately, spots that are usually associated with the beginning of a new solar cycle. Although the sunspots were missing, scientists rushed to predict that the 24th sola... |
7 January 2008
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