After keeping quiet for months, Ageia is using the 2006 Game Developers Conference as a platform to deliver actual cards and supporting software for its PhysX physics acceleration unit (or PPU).

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At the launch of their Radeon X1000-series of graphics products, ATI made plenty of noise about their new graphics hardware being suited to processing more than just graphics, touting their new ...

In a fixed-field alternating-gradient (FFAG) accelerator, eliminating pulsed magnet operation permits rapid acceleration to synchrotron energies, but with a much higher beam-pulse repetition rate.

Believe it or not, the quantum vacuum... isn't completely empty. It has tiny vibrations or “sparks” of energy. If an object ...

The shocking discovery that the universe is expanding at a faster and faster rate has taken the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics. Three American-born astrophysicists will divide the $1.5 million prize, ...

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