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Servers bathed in oil

Servers bathed in oilCray??I seem to remember a story that Cray was looking for the perfect liquid to cool their super-computers back in the 80s. They had tried everything and what turned out to work best was a saline solution that mimicked blood.Oil-cooled computers? What kind of oil?Most...

Tags: Tom, saline, liquid, server, OPEC, April Fool

Discussion threads 2007-04-11

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H2O + CO2 = CH4, thanks to Archaeans

Researchers at Penn State have found a friendly microbe that'll take our excess CO2, add some water, a charge of electricity, and return us methane. The original purpose of the portable electrolysis cell research: producing H2. But if you get lemons, make.... It's long been...

Tags: Electricity, Carbon Dioxide, Archaea, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-31

Life in extreme environments

U.S. biologists have developed a model mapping the control circuit governing a bacteria named Halobacterium salinarum, which can live in extremely salty environments, and that can survive to radiation which would be deadly to most other organisms. Their model shows how these bacteria adapt themselves in response to their environment....

Tags: Genome, Environment, Gene, Bacteria, Cell, Biotechnology, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-12-30

Listening to cancer cells

According to researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia, its now possible to detect skin cancer cells present in blood samples by listening to the sound of melanoma cells. The scientists have used a method named photoacoustic detection, which uses a laser to make cells vibrate and ultrasound techniques to pick...

Tags: cell

Blog posts 2006-10-17

Army conference shows off modern marvels for modern menaces

Wired News' Noah Shachtman covered the biannual Army Science Conference held this week in Orlando, Florida.  Ideas for dealing with the threat posed by biological weapons, outfitting tanks and Hummers to protect against RPGs rocket propelled grenades, and switching from the use of morphine for injured soldiers to an animal tranquilizer, ketamine, were among...

Tags: Army

Blog posts 2004-12-03