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Building a Homemade Nuclear Reactor In NYC 219

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 24, 2010 @10:37AM from the extreme-diy dept.

yukk writes "Mark Suppes, a web developer for Gucci, is working on his own personal fusion reactor. His work in a NYC warehouse using $35,000 of his own money and $4,000 raised on a website has made him the 38th independent researcher recognized as creating a working fusion reactor. How's that for a hobby?"

Half-Male, Half-Female Fowl Explain Birds' Sex Determination 117

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 11, 2010 @04:48PM from the fish-nor-fowl-except-fowl dept.

Kanan excerpts from a BBC report out of Scotland: "A study of sexually scrambled chickens suggests that sex in birds is determined in a radically different way from that in mammals. Researchers studied three chickens that appeared to be literally half-male and half-female, and found that nearly every cell in their bodies — from wattle to toe — has an inherent sex identity. This cell-by-cell sex orientation contrasts sharply with the situation in mammals, in which organism-wide sex identity is established through hormones." Kanan also supplies this link to some pictures of the mixed-cell birds.

Yellowstone Supervolcano Larger Than First Thought 451

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 15, 2009 @11:50AM from the even-superer dept.

drewtheman writes "New studies of the plumbing that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park shows the plume and the magma chamber under the volcano are larger than first thought and contradicts claims that only shallow hot rock exists. University of Utah research professor of geophysics Robert Smith led four separate studies that verify a plume of hot and molten rock at least 410 miles deep that rises at an angle from the northwest."

Comment Re:Why's it so bad? (Score 1) 720

by Chess76 on Tuesday February 24, 2004 @03:59PM (#8376981) Attached to: Linus on Intel's 64 bit Extensions

Who's to say that Intel is really following AMD's footsteps in the first place. Intel is such a paranoid company that one would be mistaken if they weren't working on 64-bit extensions for IA32 (which they were but didn't want to publically annouce because of IA64). Also, who's to say that Intel didn't hand over the designs for the 32-bit extensions to AMD in the first place to keep them competitive? And the other thing, the x86-64 bit stuff, might just bite Intel and end-users in the ass later on down the road. I give AMD the hand for coming out with this but if they were really going to extend 32-bit they should have done it correctly instead of this half-assed x86-64 stuff. Most of the 64-bit stuff is just memory extensions anyway, and this really doesn't give you 64-bit processing power, just the ability to access memory above the 4GB limit.

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