Bridge of Sandy CyberPower harness for gaming - PC Magazine

CyberPower, manufacturer of high-end, custom gaming machines announced that their latest models and custom configurations will feature new Intel Sandy Bridge processors bring the latest technology for treatment of serious games. The first models to integrate the new processors will be 1000 Xtreme Gamer, 2000 and 5000 and Xplorer series of CyberPower gaming notebooks.

In addition to these new models, CyberPower will also adopt the new Intel processors in their line of infinite model and their custom hardware configurations. Next generation desktop processor and Mobile Intel Sandy Bridge offers significant improvements in processing power and efficiency, and CyberPower will exploit these capabilities to provide games for high performance with power saving treatment.

The first model new today unveiled was the Xtreme Gamer 1000, which uses Intel i5-2300 processor on a water cooled motherboard Asus H67. 1 TB HDD sizable offers enough storage space and 4 GB memory DDR3 this should be a snappy system. 1000 Xtreme Gamer will begin at $599.

The 2000 Xtreme Gamer builds on this basic model, offering the same liquid cooled i5 processor and the motherboard, but adding discrete graphics from ATI Radeon 5770 and bumping up to 8 GB of RAM. The 2000 Xtreme Gamer will be sold for $799.

Ramps Gamer Xtreme 5000 to performance, taking on another level entirely with a processor i7-2600K Sandy unlocked bridge is ready and waiting to be overclocked. The processor lies on a motherboard liquid cooled Asus D67 with 4 GB memory performance and latest GTX 570 of Nvidia video card brings 3D and PhysX graphic support. HDD 1 TB offers storage of programs and files, while Blu - ray optical drive offers a new dimension of entertainment. The Xtreme Gamer begins at $1449.

The influx of new Intel processors is not limited to desktop, either. Xplorer series gaming notebooks CyberPower will receive also an upgrade Sandy Bridge with Intel Core i7-2620QM processor mobile as well as the ability to place video technology Intel wireless. Units with 4 GB RAM, 500 GB HDD and 1920 by 1080 high-definition displays will be available from $799.

In addition to these new models, the CyberPower will integrate hardware latest Intel into their full range of customizable templates, with Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium, guaranteed on desktops and laptops and phone support of life free.

These 2011: Steve Ballmer said the case for Windows - AllAfrica.com

CEO of Microsoft Steve Ballmer claimed that Windows has "the breadth and depth and flexibility to support and deliver next generation" of computing devices when he gave the opening speech 2011 Consumer Electronics Show. He chaired the demonstrations showing how future technology is controlled by voice and gesture, running on everything that is still providing a consistent experience, it was difficult to do not agree with him.

It announced the impending launch of Avatar Kinect upgrade accessory Xbox Live Gold subscribers so that facial expressions of their representatives on the screen could be included in the gameplay or video conference. He also told Netflix, HuluPlus and ESPN would be added to the platform. When he showed off the coast of a laptop dual screen, was announced in August by Toshiba, he whoops of applause from the public gets these press, traders and analysts. Most importantly, however, was a announcement of Mr. Ballmer running Windows now on chips with Arm Holdings, British society more generally associated with mobile phones.

But it's a difference that consumers will not notice, and could not they. In the era when Apple brought us all (often reverse osmosis) expect technology simply to work only with business analysts should worry about what is made the chip inside. When Microsoft says its largest, the latest developments are under the hood, its millions of consumers could be forgiven a whole research new vehicle. Motorola and BlackBerry, for example, both demonstrate new tablets, the Xoom and manual, that enhance the mobile experience on the desktop or in the vicinity. This dynamic sector is that establishes the agenda.

Microsoft plea for excitation on the addition of new channels of movies on Xbox, for example, is commendable and born of the same mistake. Mr. Ballmer is a big problem for consumers can watch Netflix. Consumers want simply watching a movie. Apple, Google and BlackBerry even clearly understand that. If Microsoft made it good cache.

Apple becomes the first - 1 trillion company in the world? -International Business Times

Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) could become the first company in the world with a capitalization stock 1 - trillion, according to James Altucher, formula capital associated with hedge funds.

Apple comes to pass the milestone of $ 300 billion market cap, this ranking second only to Exxon-Mobil (NYSE: XOM) is valued at approximately $ 377 billion.

In an article published on BusinessInsider as well as on CNBC, Altucher believes that iPad sales total between $ 10 million and 12 million this year, against 7.5 million at the end of the last quarter, adding that Apple has about 40% gross margin on sales of iPad.

In addition, "iPad has margin 30 gross percentage on sales of the app and margin of 10% on sales of the song", he writes. "They sell apps up to 30 million dollars a day."

He considers sale of iPads Apple will likely soar in the coming years, perhaps up to 200 - million by 2013.

"Two - cent million iPads with a 30% margin (currently the margins on iPads are approximately 36 percent, but I guess they will go down) is approximately 30 billion in gross profits,"Estimates Altucher.""

Moreover, every application, assuming that the company sells applications of 100 million per day, on average, is approximately 30 cents.
"They get 30 percent margins on an application, or about 9 cents app," he noted. "It's 9 million in gross daily profits or approximately $ 3.5 billion per year in gross profit on sales of the JPA in 2013." Already we are at 35 billion in gross profit and that's not counting iPhone sales, iPod sales, sales of song (margin also about 10 cents per song), sales videos and of course, Mac sales.

Moreover, he adds, the iPhone will be available on Verizon, accelerate more sales.

Altucher proposed into 2013 if iPad and app sales represent approximately 40% of gross profits from Apple, total gross profits could be $ 80 billion (25 billion against now).

"Cash flow could be 75% (as it is today), or approximately 60 billion," he said. "" "". Slap a 20-fold multiple that and you have a market capitalization of $ 1.2 trillion. It is a price on the part of approximately $1,200 per 2013 ".

Altucher also alluded to the ubiquity of Apple products.

He sang that already in my house there is a Macbook Air. There are two iTouches, iPhone, two iPads and four or five iPod. I have 10 authorized computers already for iTunes across two accounts. Download apps at least once per day, much more if you add songs, TV shows and movies from the iTunes store. Within two weeks, before I leave on a trip to the India going to buy a Macbook Air 13 "to travel with, and I know that I will never return for HP notebooks, I used for almost 10 years." »

Apple shares are currently traded at about $331.60 per share, a P/E of approximately 21.9.

RIM Announces 4 G manual coming to Sprint was 2011 - Apple Insider

RIM Announces 4 G manual coming to Sprint summer 2011By Josh OngPublished: 01: 55 AM EST

Research in Motion has revealed intend to release a version of its BlackBerry manual Tablet 4 G this summer on the Sprint Nextel network according to a new report.

According to Reuters, BlackBerry manufacturer announced plans all in boast the "big" corporate interest in the device.

"In large companies, they talk about deployment of tens of thousands, immediately the bat," said Jeff McDowell, senior vice president of RIM company and platform marketing. According to McDowell, companies see the manual as an essential tool for employees, just like a phone or a PC.

RIM has apparently decided to use the Sprint because it has the most "4 G network ubiquitous." at this stage Sprint is currently the third largest network wireless in the United States, with only Verizon and AT & T the most subscribers.

The wireless in the United States are currently in a 4 G "arms race" compete for titles of "faster" and "largest" network of 4 g. AT & T described Wednesday accelerated plans to deploy 4 G LTE technology. Meanwhile, Verizon began to deploy its own 4 G LTE network.

The tablet of manual was available for demonstrations for the first time Wednesday at the Consumer Electronics Show. The device "running smoothly as he went to the test," the report.

RIM has yet to set a price for the manual, although the company said it will sell the device for "minimum of $500" One version of Wi - Fi device should start in the first quarter of this year.

The report also noted that according to McDowell, manual battery life "will last longer or longer than the other 7-inch tablet. Tab 7-inch Samsung Galaxy gets about 6 hours of battery life. By comparison, Apple iPad gets 10 hours of battery life.

McDowell called concerns about Adobe Flash reducing "absurd generalizations." battery life

Analyst Shaw Wu of Kaufman Bros. recently expressed concerns about the development of the manual, citing sources who requests that the test tablet units get only "hours" of the battery life. Quickly fired back, RIM refusing claims and promising 'superior performance with comparable battery life ". Despite the denials of RIM, Wu published a follow-up report maintain its position requiring same correspondent to battery tab Samsung Galaxy "important engineering".

Apple CEO Steve Jobs skeptical rest on tablets of 7 inches, believing that they will be dead on arrival, and manufacturers realize they are too small and abandon them next year. They you can increase the size, leaving customers and developers who have purchased to smallest format. »

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Motorola gadget to make smartphones like computers - Reuters

JHA of plans most thin lapdoc accessories for phones plus

Range of phone eyes 2011 around similar to 2010 size

* Does not include any offer a Microsoft phone

By Sinead Carew

(NEW YORK, Jan 5, Reuters) - its outline and its called a lapdoc but the mobility of Motorola (IMM.)(N) the consumer Paris will want to use this gadget to their smartphones operate more like real computers and contribute to Motorola stand out from the crowd.

The company who invented the cell phone unveiled the Atrix 4 G phone to join a new accessory called a lapdoc - type 'dumb' device like a laptop but does not work without the attached phone. It has a portable size screen and keyboard designed to better navigation on the Web, video, viewing and typing on a phone.

Chief Executive Sanjay Jha told Reuters in an interview at the Consumer Electronics Show aims to develop more slender lapdocs on which consumers could attach multiple phones.

While consumers can use smart phones to a large number of computer activities as surfing the web, JHA said that they need in addition to long emails or watching a movie on a plane.

"I like it much because every what we've done is added to our devices, accessories and added applications that change the way you use them," JHA said. "I think we have a chance to differentiate us."

After the unveiling in a packaged wholesale product room where participants have applauded and cheered after seeing the demonstration JHA said he already has plans in place to extend the line.

"If you wait you miss the slot so that you have to commit", he said.

Mobile no. 2 U.S. AT & T Inc (NWT) provider pointed Atrix to its showcase for products earlier in the day and said it would sell "competitively priced" from this quarter.

HIKING IN MARKETING

Motorola will also attempt to boost sales in the new product category with a splash on the Atrix and lapdoc, which are so unusual marketing, they need to be explained with more care to consumers as typical phones, JHA said.

But, Chief Marketing Officer Bill Ogle told Reuters that while Motorola spent "considerably more" marketing on this year will always be a relatively small amount compared to spending on devices like Razr phone lighthouse from 2004 to 2006.

Tablets are talk of the town these - Los Angeles Times

It's raining tablets.

In the hope of pin away iPad from Apple Inc. and $ 20 billion market it controls now, dozens of manufacturers are unveiling over 80 computers touch screen at the Consumer Electronics Show, the annual showcase of tech here.

The rush is on, and not only because of the hugely successful iPad but because the bet that the tablet computer manufacturers will become a ubiquitous household gadget.

"Today we think tablets such as mobile devices, but as prices go down we can see them around the House used for all types of uses, said Ross Rubin, an analyst for technology research firm NPD Group." "It might be a plus for observation, or a more durable than the children play with education.

Or so even that digital photo frames, weather dashboards or recipes, Rubin books added.

During the speech by Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Steve Ballmer, the company has shown a handful of pills again powered by its Windows operating system.

One upcoming applications for the tablet will be a newsreader application, parent company The Times, Tribune Co. The application, called Mosaic, creates a palpable photographs mobile gaming, when operated, reveal a title associated with the photo that users can open and read.

"This is a very different way, visual for readers sort and customize the way that they want to see news delivered," said Eddy Hartenstein, co-Chair of Forum. "You only touch and it flowers.

The program can be used to read the news from a number of newspapers from la Tribune, including The Times, the Chicago Tribune and the Hartford current. Users can also choose to add "feeds" of blogs, Twitter and other online sources.

The application will be available in an associated Microsoft Tablet digital store and is free. The app will include advertising in the highest resolution, Tribune officials said rather than lower resolution ads often found online.

Newspapers have been under siege in the past few years, as readers cancel their paid print subscriptions and to hop online for the same articles free of charge. Some publishers had hoped that online advertising revenues would eventually constitute the shortfall in print advertising and subscriptions. Instead of this, revenue advertising online have decreased by 12% in 2009, according to the latest figures available from the Association of America, newspaper.

"As income print journal continues to decline, online advertising revenues could not compensate losses," said Greg Sterling, Sterling Market Intelligence Analyst. "Now everyone is considering paid templates."

The emergence of tablets and mobile devices introduced publishers with a new opportunity to encourage readers to pay for news delivered on these devices. But it isn't a slam dunk to get people to subscribe, said Alan Mutter, a San Francisco media analyst.

Consumers, although only a small minority, have shown a willingness to spend money for news. In a Pew Research Center report released in December, 18% of the 755 users said that they had paid for digital articles or reports of newspapers or magazines at least once.

"It would be miraculous to get people to pay for news on the Internet," Sterling said. "On shelves, there is a best ball, but the pricing and the user experience must be good."

Tablet announcement that Microsoft would be the second to the these in as many years – he ya yearling Ballmer showed off the coast of so-called Microsoft slate versions. But slate never released Apple iPad become the first tablet to catch some attention when it was announced a few weeks later.

Other stars included manufacturers of major electronics such as LG, Samsung and Dell, as well as many lesser-known companies with niche Tablet approaches. Almost all new appliances Tablet announced this week will be powered by software Microsoft or Google Inc...

Austin, Texas-based Motion Inc. has shown off the coast of a device "reinforced" $ 1,000 to physically demanding industries such as construction, healthcare and retail in-store sales and built to withstand the elements and handling sudden.

"Below freezing or above 100 degrees?" "No problem", says a brochure of the query. "Dropped by 4 feet. Like it never happened. »

To differentiate from many other tablets with Android or Windows, Chinese manufacturer Lenovo has released a device that is both. Expected to be released sometime in the first quarter, the LePad $ 520 runs Android software until that is attached to a docking station resembling a portable computer, which converts the tablet on a screen for the Windows operating system.

This feature may appeal to a relatively small audience but Rubin, the analyst said it is always a start for tablets - and it's an industry that loves to throw a lot of spaghetti against the wall to see what that sticks.

David.Sarno@LAtimes.com

Alex.Pham@LAtimes.com

Arm leads FTSE 100 higher even as Microsoft confirms the link-up - The Guardian

Arm leads once more higher market after that meeting-long-awaited designer chip with Microsoft finally unveiled.

Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show Microsoft said that it expected to design an operating system Windows PC tablet and smartphones compatible with arm's chip models. The move marks away long-standing Microsoft with Intel relationship. Shares of topped arm's classification of the FTSE 100 yesterday in preparation for the news, and now they are another 10% addition of 44.6 p 516 p. In the background is also speculation that arm could be a target for taking control, perhaps for Intel or perhaps Apple, well that the company consistently rejected these rumours.

Rival CSR, down 5 percent, 372.7 p, has also been kicking as a target for Intel, particularly in the wake of $3 MD yesterday offers expert chip Atheros wireless by us group Qualcomm.

Back with arms, analyst Gareth Evans Investec says:

Microsoft last night confirmed that the next version of Windows will be available on a number of chips, based on processor core Arm. Windows "Telephone" has been previously available on these chips, but this is the first complete Windows runs on ARM - cores the exact time is not clear, and existing programs on Intel will probably be rewritten.

The importance of a move by Microsoft, far from being the model "wintel" is difficult to exaggerate. Above all, confirmation last night showed a determination on the part of Microsoft to compete seriously with Apple and Google's Android devices on the handheld device market and a tablet. New technology will apply finally product group, the tablets, even though it will be realistic will be published two or three years before arm based products. Intel bid rumours rumours of news yesterday of a possible bid for arm by Intel helped pushed shares higher again. We see competition issues as too large to make a such possible bid.

Peel Hunt but was most negative issue a note to sell on the arms, as he also rejected the idea of a bid from Intel. Analyst Paul Morland said:

Shares trade on 2011 earnings 47 times which we believe is too given quarterly risk of a miss at a given time and the lack of updates.

On the whole of the FTSE 100 moved 18.03 points higher at 6061.89 before a monthly UK services survey and weekly jobless figures the latest us this afternoon. Ilya Spivak, daily, the FX currency strategist said:

Scanning of busy economic calendar, zone euro consumer confidence and German factory orders figures stand out: both are supposed to show deterioration, which certainly bodes poorly given the important role played by private consumption and exports in the conduct of regional growth in the middle of budgetary austerity acute. However, these figures will be finally highlight trends that are already largely established, with the real point of interest is the weekly claims without employment report from the United States due until late in the session as a very important gear together official Friday us data on the employment markets.

Market buoyancy comes despite another raft of warnings of retail profit with Mothercare down 28 percent to 570 percent and Clinton cards off p 4 to 24 p.

White House releases expected guidelines for scientific integrity (sciencemag.org)

This is a very long wait for a four-page memo. Seventeen end months of meeting the deadline in order of March 2009 President Barack Obama, the Office of science White House and Technology Policy (OSTP) published today high level advice on how to develop policies on scientific integrity, Federal agencies. The guide, which includes a ban on interference, is being received warmly but somewhat cautiously by advocacy groups.

Followed Obama order concerns about the politicization of science to the Bush Administration and the recognition that the Federal Government had no uniform rules and practices. The memo outlines four areas that should cover the policies of the Agency: the foundations of the scientific integrity of the Government, communication to the public on science, the use of advisory committees and professional scientists.

The guide includes the following points:

"Politicians should not remove or alter the scientific or technological findings." Data used for political decisions must "undergo peer independent qualified experts, there where possible and appropriate." Agencies should set clear standards for dealing with conflicts of interests and adopt protections of denunciation. Agencies should develop and promote access to scientific information by making them available online. Should principles for science communication to the public, such as explaining the uncertainties and describing the probabilities of case scenarios better and more. Federal scientists can speak to the media and the public in their research "coordination." appropriate with their immediate supervisor and the Office of public affairs Agencies should facilitate professional development of scientists, such as encouraging the publication of the results and presentations at meetings.

Francesca Grifo EU scientists interested in Cambridge, Massachusetts, welcomed the note in a statement: "It's a crude but promising plan of honesty and accountability in the use of science in government decisions." Al Teich, Director of science policy at the AAAS (which publishes science Insider) in Washington, D.C., tweeted his reaction on the note of the White House: "they have spoken presentation." We hope that they walk the walk.

Blog post on the memo, Scientific Advisor John Holdren, directed OSTP, stressed that it was the minimum standards to improve ongoing efforts to ensure scientific integrity for organizations.

Holdren said ScienceInsider earlier this week, the part of the reason for the delay in the issuance of the memo was difficult to obtain the agreement of all the stakeholders and develop guidelines that would be applicable to all.

Federal agencies are supposed to report to the Holdren within 120 days of their orientation implementation progress. If they do, they beat their performance pattern by more than a year.

Astronauts landed successfully at the space station (Reuters)

The spacecraft Russian Soyuz TMA-20, carrying the crew of the international space station (ISS) astronaut of NASA Catherine Coleman, Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev and European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli, explosions from its launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome on December 16, 2010.

Credit: Reuters/Sergei Remezov

MOSCOW | 17 December 2010 4: 35 pm EST

Moscow (Reuters) - while docked with the international space station Friday shuttle carrying astronauts from the United States, Italy Russia successfully, the Russian space agency Roscosmos said.

Soyuz TMA-20 arrived two days after blasting from the Baikonur cosmodrome on the Kazakh steppe. Thursday, space Russian control lost contact with the spacecraft for several hours.

"The approach and berthing of the vessel with the station was carried out under the supervision of the Centre space command," said the statement on the site Web de Roscosmos www.roscosmos.ru.

Docking offer astronaut of the NASA Catherine Coleman, Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev and Paolo Nespoli Space Agency International, European, of the Italy to the space station a $ 100 billion project organized by 16 countries.

He has been building 220 miles above the Earth since 1998.

The Russian news agency Interfax was late Thursday space command center that Putin had lost contact with the spacecraft, but started that information of the boat was flowing back hours later.

The Soyuz flight is one of the last before the United States withdrew its reusable space shuttles leaving astronauts entirely dependent on Russian crafts for missions to the ISS.

(Statement by Thomas Grove, editing by Tim Pearce)

Study: Living near a highway can contribute to the risk of autism (time)

There are several reasons why live close to a road is not desirable - turn the noise, the quality of air, the infinite flow of tourists lost in your driveway. But a new study published in Environmental Health Perspectives offers another: children who live near roads at birth had twice the risk of autism as those who live far medium.

Researchers interviewed and examined 304 children with autism and as a control, 259 typically developing children in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Sacramento metropolitan areas. Researchers found that children whose families lived in 1,000 feet of a motorway at birth - about 10% of children in the study - were twice as likely to have autism as those more living far from the motorway. (Over Time.com: Study: some autistic brain really is hard wired differently)

Link held after controlling other variables such as age of the mother, parenting and smoking. Interestingly, however, the same effect does not apply to children living near other streets heavily trafficked. Researchers theorized that the type and the considerable quantity of chemicals distributed on roads are different from those on the city, even the busiest roads.

"This study does not mean exposure to air pollution and traffic causes autism," lead author Heather Volk, researcher at the Saban Research Institute, children's Hospital Los Angeles, told the Los Angeles Times. "But it might be one of the factors that contribute to its growth." (Over Time.com: photos: a journey into the world of autism)

As noted by LAWeekly, however, another recent study, looking at clusters of autism in the Los Angeles region found that disorder rates were higher in the districts of the upper middle class where residents had higher than average levels of education or were located near major autism treatment centres (proximity of the road was not part of the equation). Probably high rates of autism were due at least in part to better monitoring - something that tends to miss in low-income communities. (Over Time.com: children 1-5 with an autistic brother show Subtle symptoms too)

There is no cure for autism, and researchers are still investigating its cause - a combination of genes and the environment. In recent years, scientists have made progress in the identification of certain changes that characterize the autistic brain, which may help to lead to earlier diagnosis. Early diagnosis can lead to turn, possibly earlier intervention and researchers believe that early treatment may mitigate autistic symptoms or perhaps in some cases prevent disorder completely.

Two weeks ago a team of neurologists of Harvard and the University of Utah has been reported to an MRI of the brain to identify autism with 92% accuracy with men and boys. And earlier this year, a study in the American Journal of Psychiatry, revealed that 20% develop normally and siblings of children with autism had language delays and problems of subtle speech - similar but milder than those common in autism - added evidence to the argument that genes play a role.

Related links:

New version of an old drug may treat autism (and too)

Using videos for babies autism diagnosis

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Coast Guard: small seafloor oil spill Gulf (Seattle Post Intelligencer)

Last update 17 December 2010 4 pm PTBy CAIN BURDEAU
PRESS PARTNER

NEW ORLEANS - Federal scientists said Friday extensive sampling seabed Gulf oil too small to collect quantities and concentrations lower than harmful levels found Mexico except in the vicinity of many BP.

Coast Guard report independent scientific contrast say oil spillage of BP extensively damaged the seabed and killed Coral Sea and many benthic animals as tubeworms fans.

"We do not find any recoverable quantity of oil" bottom marine, said Rear Admiral Paul Zukunft. "We are dealing with barely detectable amounts of oil in the parts per billion in many places".

He said that minute quantities of oil well fall limits of pollution, except for the region within a radius of 1 1/2 miles from the BP, wells where the oil is linked with pumped for drilling mud into the well of BP to cap it.

BP, located approximately 50 miles from the coast of Louisiana was plugged in September, but not before more than 170 million litres of oil leak in the Gulf.

Again, said government scientists report Friday is a guide to the coast guard and the cleaning teams not assess the spill to ecosystem damage.

Coast Guard report is a summary of 17 000 samples of water and sediment taken from May to October. Report says no broad potential cleanup was justified and efforts should concentrate on residues of tar and oil buried in the sand along the shore.

Publication of the report coincides with Zukunft transfer of supervision of Captain Lincoln Stroh cleaning. Coast Guard also said he would travel in response to long term, supervised by the regional coast guard units.

Oil in sediment samples could not be dating to BP well except for those taken close to the well, said the report. In many places, traces of oil may have come from other sources, such as oil natural seeps and even other leaks.

Since August 3, the report said less than 1% of the water and sediment samples exceeded the levels that the Environmental Protection Agency considers harmful to aquatic life.

But Charlie Henry, Coordinator of scientific support for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, even very low levels of oil could "latent, in the long term chronic effects" have on marine species.

Scientists have been cautious and even skeptics on the last report.

Ian r. MacDonald, an oceanographer at Florida State University, said a scuba diving recently found what appears to be lots of oil and animals died on the ocean floor at a very close location where the Government has declared that it barely find oils.

"Went to the same place and saw many oil", says MacDonald. "In our samples we found dead abundant animals." He noted that various - qualified researchers - people may get different answers. »

MacDonald believes that an area of 80 square miles of floor Ocean autour well been damaged by oil.

Ernst Peebles, an oceanographer at the University of South Florida said researchers found abnormalities on the floor of the Gulf. "History (of what is happening) on the bottom is just beginning," he said.

The report was welcomed by BP as evidence the Gulf has done a solid return.

"The scientific evidence in this report are consistent with our findings that beaches are safe, water is safe and the seafood is safe," said Mike Utsler, Commander of the BP cleaning.

Birdbooker report 149 (guardian)

Books on the ceiling
Books to the sky
My pile of books is one mile high.
How I likes them! How I need them!
I'll long beard at the time that I have read the.

~ Arnold Lobel [1933-1987] author of children's books popular many.

Compiled by Ian "Birdbooker" Paulsen, Birdbooker report is a weekly report of the long list of the wide variety of nature, natural history, ecology, animal behaviour, science and history books recently released or re-released in America of the North and the United Kingdom. The books listed here were received by Ian for the previous week, courtesy of these various publishing houses.

The title features:

New and recent titles:

You can read Birdbooker early reports archive on my old site of ScienceBlogs and Ian now has its own website, the ratio of Birdbooker, where you can read the synopsis on science recently published in nature and animal books.

Reassuring hands: urgent flight crew A USD (International Herald Tribune)

Face of the woman could not be considered. The crew did not know his name, nor that of her husband, who was sitting in the vicinity. The soldiers knew it: she work nearly nine hours, and the intensity with which it specialist clutch Charles j. Williams, a medic with flight, suggested to worry and pain.

"It is clamping on my hand as she is about to pull," specialist, said into the microphone headset. "

"Oh, she is in pain," replied Sergeant Patrick e. Schultz, top flight nurse. It looked a screen showing his vital signs. "How much longer?

The cockpit, Capt Amy l. Bauer, a pilot in the army, replied: "Seven minutes."

For a crew of American Black Hawk and Afghan woman in fatal work hand, roaring fast flight this month was a tour of separate worlds and the promise and challenges when these worlds meet.

Poverty and lack of medical services in Kandahar province are almost total agricultural area and the road along the Arghandab River. A woman in the arid suburbs to a dangerous delivery local midwives could not resolve usually had a few choice beyond a bumpy ride on a rocky track and hope to reach the city of Kandahar before it and her dead baby.

Since last summer, there is another possibility. Helicopter medevac crews and American were placed in the small outposts along the River, deployed soldiers from NATO and Afghanistan against the Taliban.

Helicopters have been assigned to Kandahar Airfield to reduce time of flight for wounded soldiers meet modern trauma. But a patient is a patient. Afghans with ordinary but often severe conditions - victims of heart attacks, accidents or diseases advanced - often ask for help, too.

Each case raises a question. Should the crew evacuation scoop and civilian ferry and risk of not having a helicopter for a soldier hit by a bullet or blown by a bomb?

Hazardous work

December 11, the allocation of the mission have a tent at Forward Operating Base Wilson, where a detachment of the 101st combat aviation brigade expected its next call. It was just after 1 h 25. Any American or Afghan unit nearby had sustained a victim. The flight to pick up women has been approved.

The pilot and crew crossed the landing area covered with gravel to two helicopters - airplane evacuation without heavy weapons and a boat with two Gunners escort door machine guns.

This morning Sergeant Schultz, 31, told the crew that he had a strange dream. In this case, they had delivered a baby in the air. Now, Sgt. Schultz appeared on the landing area sprint. It was in the shower tent. Cream shave scratching his face.

"Schultz." Specialist Williams, 21, screamed. "You." This dream! »

Sergeant intervened inside the rotor began to turn and noise has increased. Soon the aircraft was thrown in the distance.

The patient was approximately 30 kilometres in the desert South Khakrez, of special forces compound Afghan. The word special forces were relayed by command in Kandahar: the woman had been working since before dawn, and it would be accompanied by the theft of her husband.

Sgt. Schultz published instructions, wondering how to find a balance between the medical and cultural requirements.

A review by two young Western men, he said, would be impossible, especially since nobody the aircraft can speak Pashto, the dominant language of southern Afghanistan, and he did not expect the patient to speak English. He worried that treat women would offend her husband and cause the shame of the family. The wife or husband could even resist.

Taimoor Shah has contributed reports Kandahar Afghanistan.

The apprentice finale and strictly Come Dancing restore saves BBC1 audiences (guardian)

Apprentice Finalists Chris Bates and Stella. Photo: Ian West PA

S4C is one of the largest display weekends for 20 years as snowy families gathered around their televisions for the finale of Strictly Come Dancing last night and preparing themselves to settle down once more confrontation this evening on learning.

Ratings for the final payments illustrates two - predicts 12 million for strictly and nine million for learning — can make a high water of this breed of popular entertainment, especially when added to the 17 million that listens during the week preceding ITV x factor final.

Last Sunday, saw the largest number of watching television since the beginning of the common files. At one time, between 8: 45 p.m. and 9 p.m., averaging 31.9 million have been solved factor X or semi strictly Come Dancing. But what causes hordes of viewers for programs of same, despite the many alternative channels? While it is clear, evidence of demand for integrated drama of chart shows the success or failure of academic favorite candidates put of theories more sophisticated choices make viewers.

Supporters of the English Chris Bates and Stella Apprentice Finalists did not know it, but their choice of programme is as important to the way they feel their subject as the clothing they wear or the music they listen to.

Fairs as strictly, who won last night by former EastEnders star Kara Tointon in final pitted him against a psychologist Pamela Stephenson Connolly and Countryfile presenter and hot favorite Matt Baker, perform a key role in society, says media psychologist Mr. Young of the University of Essex.

Funded Freesat, Young, research shows that the television is simply entertainment. Instead, it is regarded to create links, and how we look at defines our personality type.

"The study was based on a questionnaire sent to more than 2,000 adults, of whom some have been parents and some weren't, said Young." I started with the idea quite established that watching television is just a part of the experience. From a perspective of consumer psychology, it provides people with a shared conversation and exposes the nature of the domestic ecology in each House.

He found evidence that many people - "Sofa Snobs" - will defend all their choices as superior visualization regardless of if they observe a spectacle of intellectual BBC4 or an episode of Coronation Street. A second group, "TVangelists" is more likely to be found look strictly or final apprentices. Enthusiastic at the point of obsession, they text or tweet while they watch and are considered a group of marketing important because they are "early adopters" who use television broadcasts, new technology and new embrace.

"Categories I'm identification are not"tribes"in the way that generally means researchers of consumption," said Young. "They resemble more social identities." It's a little like deciding what you wear. The rules are very similar to those which apply to personal wardrobe. »

Perhaps more compulsive viewers group defined by the young people are "Frank Followers" fervent fans of a particular broadcast, whatever Simpson, Mad Men, or the cube that will tell you that it is the only thing see. They are seeking to escape, but are willing to stand as a form of discrimination.

The dullest type may be "irritant" current It is people who are not bored as they look, but feel threatened by the pressure to concentrate. According to Young, they may not break the unspoken rules that accompany look at them different types of program. Therefore, it is acceptable to a sound during a football match, a drama as the Downton Abbey will require more attention: "this kind of person is a huge need to compete even with a voiceover documentary authoritative."

Likely to devour costume dramas such as the Abbey of Downton, old programs such as antiques or Channel 4 countdown tour viewers represent a fifth category called "nostalgic 20th". the people of all ages who value shows that celebrate the past.

The final 'tribe' Viewer is only a many could aspire to join - or secretly assume that they have. This is "Definition discoverers" that promote educational programs on the arts, or travel. According to the research of Young they frequently look at their favorite shows only, since their choices are not shared by the rest of the family. They could generally as Countryfile, team time or first Bulletin Attenborough of David.

"We all need to justify our decisions of visualization, although sometimes we look at inertia," said Young. "For, ultimately, more reliable that someone will display a program remains indicator does watching than before." Young said that the TV can also be useful for Christmas social lubricant, the atmosphere is impeded. "Sometimes people have the game with denied noise just silences are not so oppressive and people do not have to follow visual contact," he said.

He challenged the cliched assumption that authoritarian male character will hold on to the remote control: "statistically, it turns that MOM has often remote." Television display is a perfect tool underutilized for social analysis, Young argues that people actually do with their time is a clearer indicator relationship to their home as they say happens really.

Green: False to a tree for Christmas Real (NYT)

In these eco-conscious times, many people want to reduce their environmental footprint while still enjoying the trappings of the holiday season. In some cases, the easy solution to earth - pass the tofurky - is a fairly obvious choice.

Agency France-Press - Getty images 74-foot (real) Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center in New York.

But in other cases, the answer is not so obvious. When it comes to Christmas trees, for example, which is better for the planet: the artificial kind of long-lasting or freshly cut, pine fragrance and SAP variety?

As report Saturday Times, at least an important study concluded that the real tree is probably the best choice. But as I found in my statement, many consumers continue to believe that a false FIR is less harmful to the environment than the reality.

This is because an artificial tree can be used over and over again, unlike a real tree, which was launched at the end of the season. Yet, it turns, which is not enough to tip the balance in favour of the false fir. Resources used to make artificial trees - plastic and metal - have extraction costs, and most of the trees are manufactured in China, which means that they must be shipped thousands of miles to reach American shores.

Real trees are also biodegradable and can be composted or transformed into mulch; false trees are almost all the néoconservatrices ending in an outlet someday.

Artificial Christmas trees continue to sell truck, of course, according to industry estimates, the United States sales hit 13 million this year.

More false trees have a shelf life of approximately six to ten years, surveys found that point, they are beginning to look a little ragged and consumers tightening their. At this stage, they are off at discharge.

What is with recycling? Asked this question of Jami Warner, Executive Director of the American Association of Christmas tree that represents the manufacturers of artificial trees.

"All materials in artificial Christmas trees are recyclable and trees are now recycled," Ms. Warner wrote in an e-mail.

Technically, this may be true. But all municipal recycling programs I've questioned said that they do not recycle trees, artificial - and for good reason: artificial trees are largely polyvinylchloride, or PVC, which is often prohibitive recycle. I mentioned this fact to Ms. Warner, who said that the onus resting with cities, not its industry.

"At the end of the account tree are likely to find themselves in landfills, until the cities offer recycling programs," Ms. Warner writes.

Space spy laser picks (BBC)

18 December 2010 update at 03: 33 GMT by Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News, San Francisco big peak sports spectacular ridges red US science put to techniques to monitor the peaks space.

A team from the University of Idaho uses a laser satellite to try to predict how much of a State forest birds may be living.

The instrument may not see the individual peaks or trees, but it can determine the key characteristics of a wooded area, as is how dense.

Initial work has shown maps constructed from these data can locate areas favored by the North American Pileated Woodpecker.

Scientists who seek to know where these birds are because they are considered as good indicators of the global diversity of birds in a forest.

"They create homes for many other species in the context of the forest", explained Dr. Kerri Vierling fish at and Wildlife Department.

They are cavities and these holes are then used by other species for nesting and resting.

"Peaks are very sensitive to the characteristics of the forest, and they are therefore very selective about where they decide to live".

Search Idaho presented here in San Francisco at the fall meeting American Geophysical Union (AGU), most large annual gathering the planet of Earth and planetary scientists.

The team evaluated approximately 20,000 hectares of forest in the Northern State of Moscow mountain. They used data acquired by laser altimeters embedded aircraft and spacecraft of the Nasa Icesat prior to his recent retirement (it was de-orbited in August).

Icesat will be replaced later this decade

Originally conceived as a means of measuring the height of the surface of the ice in the polar regions, the instrument of the Icesat has also proved extremely effective in gathering information on plant cover in other parts of the globe.

Because of the way the light beam sent by laser rebounds disables leaf canopy trees and the ground, it is possible to make general statements on the important characteristics of the forest.

Team member Patrick Adam told BBC News: "we are trying to measure the diameter of the trees and their density." We do not do so directly from these instruments, but to get to the diameter, we can measure the height of the trees because large trees are larger than the short trees; and we arrive at the density of the forest by examining the relative quantity of light returned by foliage in which is returned to the soil.

"Therefore, looking at areas with the highest trees, we know that they are also the largest trees in diameter and has a better chance that there are peaks it." We will which emit only get out us and we are actually land peak in these areas and to verify that it.

Dr. Lee Vierling, University Department of forest ecology and biogeosciences added: "it is a species which has need for high-density forests." This is the Pileated Woodpecker.

Pileated Woodpecker prefer a dense stand they eat ants

"It's a beautiful bird with a red crest on its head height." It is a species foraging food Carpenter Ant so dense forest, best for this particular bird. »

Since the survey of forest structure tend to be fairly intensive efforts involving workers send many people in an area on foot to make the assessment. And although these evaluations produce very detailed results, they are necessarily limited in their spatial information.

Combining remotely sensed data in the effort of soil should be more relevant over large areas of forest habitat surveys.

"If we are able to predict where peaks are just based on satellite data, and then we can also assume, based on some other characteristics of vegetation, we could also have a greater diversity of forest songbirds or even mammals and reptiles. "This is useful in planning of land use and planning, biodiversity," said Mr. Adam.

"It's much easier to use satellite data." It is important to always do some checks on the ground at some points simply select to ensure that we will not completely off the coast of the tangent of reality. But generally, Yes, we can cover large areas with airborne lidar, and we really hope that we can use the space lidar for car which has global coverage so that we could use a much larger scale.

The Icesat instrument is no longer in the space, but it will be replaced later this decade. In addition, the American space agency thinks flying another instrument of laser on his travels, ecosystem structure and Dynamics of Ice (DESDynI) mission.

Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@BBC.co.UK

Some social bookmarking to Delicious (LiveScience.com) (Yahoo!) alternatives

When new spread Thursday (16 December) that Yahoo could close its popular social bookmarking service Delicious, the Internet went to arms.

Delicious, launched in 2003 as "del.icio.us" and was acquired by Yahoo in 2005, allows users to tag, register and manage their bookmarks online and share and discover booksmarks with other users. The new left its members to find an alternative service.

But then in a plot twist, Delicious said today via a blog is, in fact, not closed and it is actually for sale.

"No, we do not close Delicious," says the message. "While we have determined that there is not a strategic fit with Yahoo!, we believe there is an ideal home outside of the company, for Delicious, where it can be financed at the level where it can be competitive."

Even if the site is reassuring its users that it is not going anywhere, here are a few other social bookmarking platforms to consider where you're always worried about his fate.

How to export

To explore what other platforms are here to meet needs, here how to export bookmarks to Delicious on a computer bookmarks.

There is an easy move Delicious bookmarks on the other hand, if you want to transfer to another service bookmark at the end of line or to use directly on your browser.

First, please connect to your Delicious account and access the "Settings" button on the top right-hand side of the screen. "Marque-pages" tab, then choose "Export/Backup Marque-pages.

The screen then you prompt to save a copy of your bookmarks with your tags or notes (or both). After you click Export, Delicious transforming to a html file and then save it to your computer.

Forum

Favorite is one of the most similar there to Delicious bookmarking services allowing users to import bookmarks from other platforms, search tags and even Archives Twitter tweets. It also has a tag read functionality and private it later. However, fees for service signup Favorites and the price rises as members more reach: it was only $7.50 yesterday and is now up to $8.28. For an annual fee of $25, Favorites gives users the ability to archive full Web pages same decedent links are searchable.

Many consider his site, www.pinboard.in, receive the majority of the members of the Delicious. In fact, the site already has a note on the homepage as its heavy currently test traffic, some basic (import, archive) services running slowly.

StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon is indeed different Delicious, but many suspect users Delicious can find a home comfortable Newfoundland here. Founded in 2001, StumbleUpon learns what you like, see you only what is interesting for you on the web. 12.8 Million users are already discover photos, videos and web pages recommended by friends and people who share their interests. Sites recommended with rating inches upwards or low are automatically shared with like-minded people.

Xmarks

Xmarks perfectly integrates into your web browser - Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Safari (Mac OS) - and keep your bookmarks supported safely up and synchronized. Xmarks highlighted sites in your search results based on how others have bookmarked and rated them. For $12 per year, members can automatically follow and any changes to your bookmarks backup and display the restoration or export past bookmark collections. Members can also synchronize the tabs in their browser open all your computers and mobile devices and access to fast support by e-mail.

Diigo

Diigo goes beyond the scope of bookmarking and provides functionality of browser extensions to you to save notes for offline reading. Diigo provides a browser add-on that can really enhance the productivity of research. Instead of just being bookmarked you can portions of multi-color highlight web pages that are of particular interest. Members can also attach routable to specific parts of Web pages. Paragraphs highlighted, self-adhesive and url of origin can all be saved on Diigo servers to create a personal website digest. It can also be easily searched, accessed, sorted and shared from a PC or even iPhone.

Google Bookmarks

This site free storage available for Google account members also give members an easy way to bookmark sites, take notes and add labels. This is accessible from any computer with an Internet connection. Like Delicious, Google Bookmarks uses lists to share bookmarks with friends or with the public. It also lets you organize things into categories, and it is easy to add things to him even if you do not know the URL.

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Brian Cox: why it made headlines in 2010 (guardian)

Brian Cox, physicist and particle science TV presenter. Photo: Linda Nylind

Brian Cox began this year feeling exhausted after finishing wonders filming of the solar system for the BBC, a process which had led a tour of our own planet Alaska in Ethiopia. In addition, he was a newborn son, George. Not that anyone was favourable. "You can convince anyone what a series like that is hard," he said. "But 2009 was spent absolutely hard, he really sweep me."

42 Years old physicist feels slightly updated now.

The TV series of five parties exceeded expectations, attracting more than 6 million against a forecast of the summits of 3 million viewers. It has proved the 42 - year physicist in a surname: he was "quite well commended" papped while shopping with his wife and Cheltenham Science Festival. We were just in Waitrose and one guy with a long lens jumped on us. This is not because we were at the Ivy or somewhere like that.

"Everything", he adds, "" is unusual for a scientist.""

The irony is that Cox - whose work now takes place partly in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN - used to be a pop star, of sorts: a member of D: Ream, band whose "Things Can only Get Better" was the soundtrack victory of labour in 1997. He played the last concert was working bash on the South shore on their night of triumph. "But, he says," I was just the reader keyboard; ". I am now much more widely recognized. »

For some, the success of the wonders of the solar system could be until Cox "shining skin, hair cleverly floppy and very good teeth," as the Daily Mail swooned. But Professor prefers a simple explanation: "it is absolutely clear to me that people interested in science, but which had not tried for a long period is an old series like that, with a presenter offering views on the value of exploration, as well as facts.

Cox grew up as a "very, very nerdy" during what he describes as a "golden age" of science on television. He cited the influence of the presenters such as Carl Sagan and Jacob Bronowski and which shone on wonders was his enthusiasm, the memorable scenes such as the Valley of death, when he reiterated a 19th-century experience to calculate the amount of solar energy falls on Earth, concluding of sweat that off the coast of his eyebrows and say: "" and why I like physical." Series has even inspired a YouTube mash-up with whole cut sequences depict Cox as a blissed stoner to say things like "I en am come to one of natural wonders Earth... do something I've always wanted to do: I'm about to get some fans high.Kudos was incredibly forthcoming when Cox tweeted a link to the video itself;" even thanked were as his blunt ("I am from Oldham, I think a version of talking to the right of the science") attacks on creationist views such as Sarah Palin. More seriously, he campaigned vigorously against science in the review of government expenditures budget cuts. "You know that David Cameron is a great idea?" telling me. "I think making Britain best place in the world for science would be a good idea to big." The success of our economy depends to a large extent on the health of our universities and our science-based industries. »

Ultimately, he was professed himself satisfied with the result - the freezing of the. 4 £ 6bn annually spend on science - while still questioning the threat posed by the Government of the other higher education reforms. And he wished to stress two victories for the British scientist this year: the Nobel Prize in physics who visited Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov GRAPHENE their research at the University of Manchester where Cox is Professor; and the advances obtained by the British partially funding LHC. Shooting for a new series of the BBC due in the spring and now called the wonders of the universe ("is the original, but I suppose that it is now a brand") was taken around the world once more in months. When we talk about, it is just of New Mexico. he professes himself particularly happy with a sequence in which he unpicks the concept of entropy, which is something, says, even the students are struggling with.Somehow, he still managed to publish a scientific paper this year - a look at "a new way of measuring the strength of the Gluon Higgs coupling".

Next year will involve an interruption of the TV work for at least six months. "My wife and my son is with pleasure that I am," he said, adding, bubbling once more with enthusiasm for the brand "and the large Hadron Collider is so fascinating!"

Thrill of the hunt are declining throughout America (Los Angeles Times)

Jared Hansen, 17 years old, of Tomahawk, Wis., is passionate about - but less young Hunter took place sport these days. (Paul Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / 18 December 2010)Reports of Madison. Wisconsin-.

Offices of the classroom and Office cabins are empty. Blaze orange hunters are distinguished as raindrops shiny paint against Brown fields. Pub parking lots are crowded draped deer carcass pick-ups.

It's gun deer season in Wisconsin, a tradition rooted in the identity of this rugged State beer, Brats and cheese. But as the years slide, fewer people seem to care.

Fighter popularity has declined in much of the country as extended housing replace forests, aging hunters hang their rifles and children plop down in front of Facebook that venture outside instead.

Attenuation of could have serious consequences, say fans of hunting. Hunters less mean less revenue for a multi-billion dollar industry and Government's conservation efforts. He also pointed out what could be the beginning of the end of an American tradition.

Would "paradoxical as it may seem, if hunting were to disappear, a large amount of funding that will restore all sorts of wildlife habitat, game and nongame species both, disappear,", said Steve Sanetti, President of the national shooting sports Foundation.

Hunting generates billions of retail sales and pumps to hundreds of millions of dollars in Government conservation efforts each year in federal taxes and the sale of firearms and ammunition firearms license sales.

But hunters less return to sport every year. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service considers 33 States have seen the decline in sales of permits in the past two decades. The sharpest decline was in Massachusetts, which saw 50% attenuation in hunting licence period sales.

Millions of Americans still hunting, course and some States have seen increases in sales of licence during the past 20 years. But the overall decline concerned advocates outdoors.

Suburban sprawl has consumed lands hunting first, forcing many hunters choose between driving for hours to get through the woods or stay at home.

Gerald Feaser, a spokesman for the Pennsylvania Game Commission stated urban footprint that its State has nearly doubled since the early 1980s.

"All converted farms in housing or shopping centres," he said. "Once this land is lost, you cannot return it."

More children are growing up in front of the screens of computer rather that allowed to trundle along in the Woods.

"Fifty years ago, many children would hunting and fishing and be on the outside," said Mark Damian Duda, Executive Director of adapted management, natural resources, Virginia research group. "Now it is easy to sit in your playroom and playing video games."

Craig Hilliard, 65 runs pheasant Inn, a station of Briggsville, Wisconsin, which double deer enrollment station. He said that he knows about two dozen hunters who have retired from this sport.

"It there are not enough young people taking the sport to replace retiring", he said.

Elevators have bad state of conservation organizations strongly dependent sale licence financing.

In Massachusetts, lost income affected habitat restoration the State and its ability to repair vehicles efforts. State wildlife officials have pooled resources with other conservation groups and more aggressively pursue federal grants said biologist Marion Larson, Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game.

"It has us to be more creative with money, that we were forced," said Larson. "Who will continue in the future and not only here in Massachusetts."

In the meantime, Michigan, saw a 31% drop in overall sales license for the past 20 years, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Losses of revenue which mean wildlife officials were not able to fill vacancies 35 and have adopted a less detailed approach for the management of the deer population.

Spintronics: A new way for digital data bank (NPR)

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Like semiconductor computer chips rely on electricity - positive or negative - charges for storing data. Using magnets high power laboratory, researchers have developed a new way to store the data in the spin of the nucleus of an atom.

HYNIX/AFP/Getty Images Semiconductor chips computer like rely on electricity - positive or negative - charges for storing data. Using magnets high power laboratory, researchers have developed a new way to store the data in the spin of the nucleus of an atom.

Scientists at the University of Utah have taken an important step towards the day when the digital information can be stored in spin of the nucleus of an atom, rather than as an electric charge in a semiconductor.

Scientists Setup requires powerful magnets and can only be ordered at least 454 degrees Fahrenheit, so don't expect see spin memory on the shelf in a store on the computer at any time soon.

Christoph Boehme, associate professor at the University of Utah, says the thing more important than him and his team have done is show that it is possible to store information in the spin and quite easily read.

This is how they are y: firstly, they used a strong magnetic field to ensure that all of their atoms were pointing in the same direction. Then they measured which way the nucleus of an atom was spinning. Physicists speak of rotation clockwise or counterclockwise - hourly dispatching spins either up or down.

"This up and down can now represent information," explains Boehme. "A up means one and a lower mean zero."

Storage and handling of these zeros - bits in the computer language - is at the heart of the functioning of computers. Today, these zeros and those stored in electrically - charged positively or negatively. In the future, things could be different.

"Instead of electronics, people want to use the spins and build spintronics, and if you do, you should be able to store information, explains Boehme.".

"Many worlds".

They reported in the journal Science, they were able to store information in spins for nearly two minutes. But this was not the key realization.

"The main objective of this study was to show that you could read it with an electronic device," he explains. In other words, they could use electronic classical to read stored memory. Spintronics has certain advantages in the mail. In theory, spin memory should be faster and less power to run the electronic memory of take that.

Now, Boehme works in collaboration with classic bits of information. But because it works with the atoms, the Setup program can take you in the world of quantum information. Quantum physics is all about the functioning of atoms.

"Quantum information, I can have a little bit is zero and the other at the same time," explains John Morton, a physicist at the University of Oxford in England. This idea of being in two places at the same time is difficult to explain. Morton, a way of thinking is to imagine that there are several universe there.

"Whenever that quantum mechanics allows something to exist in two States at the same time, the universe split," says Morton, and you have a universe where it is one thing and a universe where it is in the other State. "You can along these lines think all computers parallel quantum computer in different worlds."

And as you can get these worlds to talk with another, then you have a very, very powerful computer.

The magic of quantum computing

Now, does feel bad if you don't quite get why computer quantum is such a desirable to have thing.

"It is not easy to explain,", says Stephen Lyon, Professor of electrical engineering at Princeton University. He and his colleagues are still trying to encourage students to enter the field of quantum computing.

"The approach we took to say, if you think that a number from one to four, with a quantum computer could know the number each time only a single estimate." Which do not just tell you how it works, but what say you there is something there type different from what most people are used, says Lyon. "" This is kind of magic ".

Of course, it is not really magic - is physical. Physical bizarre, but the physics.

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