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Comment Re:its a story because (Score 1) 547

by spencebot on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @10:57PM (#33284336) Attached to: ISPs Lie About Broadband "Up To" Speeds

Power supplies for computers kind of work like this. Many of them advertise their peak power (a few advertise the rms), but obviously peak power is not nearly as meaningful. Wiki has some other good examples on their "power handling" page.

Naphthalene Found In Outer Space 180

Posted by timothy on Saturday September 20, 2008 @10:38PM from the wake-me-up-when-they-find-remulac dept.

Adam Korbitz writes with an excerpt from his blog on an exciting discovery in space: "A team of researchers led by Spanish scientists has published their discovery of the complex molecule naphthalene in an interstellar star-forming cloud, indicating many prebiotic organic molecules necessary for life as we know it could have been present when our own solar system formed. According to the new research — published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters — the naphthalene molecules were discovered 700 light-years from Earth in a star-forming region of the constellation Perseus, in the direction of the star Cernis 52."

The Tell-All Campus Tour 34

Posted by timothy on Saturday September 20, 2008 @03:22PM from the oh-it's-probably-not-all dept.

theodp writes "Want to check out colleges without the bother of having to read about them? Well, my YouTube-loving friend, the NY Times reports that old-school elephantine dead-tree college guidebooks may be a thing of the past thanks to startup unigo.com, which has launched a free, gigantic, student-generated web-based guide to North American colleges that's laden with photos, Flip-shot videos and reviews (OK, you may have to do some reading)."

Submission + - MIT finds cure for fear (pressesc.com)

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on Monday July 16, 2007 @12:03AM

Doom con runs away writes: "MIT biochemists have identified a molecular mechanism behind fear, and successfully cured it in mice, according to an article in the journal Nature Neuroscience. They did this by inhibiting a kinase, an enzyme that change proteins, called Cdk5, which facilitates the extinction of fear learned in a particular context."

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