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Researchers Discover Potential Key To Lowering Energy Costs of Cell Phones and Data Centers

AUSTIN, Texas — A systematic analysis of power usage in microprocessors could help lower the energy consumption of both small cellphones and giant data centers, report computer science professors from The University of Texas at Austin and the Australian National University.

Their results may point the way to how companies such as Google, Apple, Intel and Microsoft can make software and hardware that will lower the energy costs of very small and very large devices. (more…)

Global Extinction: Gradual Doom as Bad as Abrupt

Environment, Science

*In “The Great Dying” 250 million years ago, the end came slowly*

The deadliest mass extinction of all took a long time to kill 90 percent of Earth’s marine life–and it killed in stages–according to a newly published report.

It shows that mass extinctions need not be sudden events.

Thomas Algeo, a geologist at the University of Cincinnati, and 13 colleagues have produced a high-resolution look at the geology of a Permian-Triassic boundary section on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic. (more…)

UCLA Researchers Identify Peptide That Inhibits Replication of Hepatitis C Virus

Science

Researchers from UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified a cell-permeable peptide that inhibits a hepatitis C virus protein and blocks the viral replication that can lead to liver cancer and cirrhosis.

The finding by Dr. Samuel French, a UCLA assistant professor of pathology and senior author of the research, builds on previous work by French’s laboratory that identified two cellular proteins that are important factors in hepatitis C virus infection. (more…)

Consumers Willing to Buy Sustainable U.S. Cotton, MU Researchers Find

Economy

Studies show importance of transparency in U.S. apparel production

COLUMBIA, Mo. – As the interest in environmentally responsible business practices grows globally, researchers are interested in how that interest translates into consumer sales. (more…)

Yahoo! Releases Chairman’s Update for Shareholders

Technology

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Yahoo! Inc., the premier digital media company, today released the following shareholder update from its Chairman Roy Bostock. (more…)

Redder Ladybirds More Deadly, Say Scientists

Nature

A ladybird’s colour indicates how well-fed and how toxic it is, according to an international team of scientists. (more…)