PhysX is going to be the next step in graphic card acceleration technology. It is also going to be a strong marketing point for nVidia as soon as there are more games supporting it. Have a look at what it can do! Enjoy!

An experimental animation,that manages to be kind of cool! Each frame is made out of one piece of 4x6 card stock. Pretty impressive, although rather short. Enjoy!

It seems to like it a lot actually. Very funny and cute. Enjoy!

Actually I've seen this trick before, somebody has to be in the car, and has to stick the playing card on the window. This video is probably a spoof after Davind Blaine, and a really good one at that! Enjoy!

Trabant was a popular East German car, during the Cold War period. It was spread in all communist countries in Europe. Today cars are built by robots, and have aluminum/composite bodies. The Trabant was made out of pressed cardboard (not joking) and was literally hammered into submission. They just don't build them today like they used to Enjoy!

If you're a computer geek (like me) than you'll truly appreciate this commercial, and even think it's hilarious. If not (and congratulations, btw) you'll find amusing the fact that people are willing to invest so much in their PC. Either way, enjoy this funny video!

And when I say "freaks out" I'm really holding back. Maybe "goes bananas" is a little more accurate. Damn...I'm really sorry for the parents, but I must say that kid freaks me out with his laugh!

Ok ... Asian people are learning English while doing aerobic / cardio exercises, smiling and repeating English phrases such as "TAKE ANYTHING YOU WANT", "SPARE ME MY LIFE" and of course ... "LET'S GO DUTCH!". P.S. The second video is a compilation of them all and then some.

Here's an extremely realistic water simulation (the most accurate I've seen so far actually) which will take gaming into a new age of realism. You'll probably need a physics acceleration card for it, but with that kind of realism, who cares?

A very cool demo about what you can do if you take the time and patience to do it. This guy made the Capitol building out of no less than a 22,000 cards, and made a time-lapse video so we can watch and enjoy!

An enzyme that can rewind the DNA at points where the two propellers should remain separate, even fatal, causing disturbances. The cause of some serious diseases, such as the rare immune-dysplasia of bone Schimke is a protein able to settle the two propellers of DNA at points in which they should remain separate and thus induce the expression of genes that would otherwise be idle. Under normal circumstances the DNA presents a series of "bubbles", namely the segments in which there is space between them and raggomitolate. The unusual alignment of the two parallel strips, led by newly discovered protein, called Harp (HEPA-related protein), reactivates the expression of genes in these traits, which may in this way to start even occurrence of very serious diseases. The enzyme is and was discovered by James Kadonaga and Timur Yusufzai, two biologists at the University of San Diego (California) authors whose research results were published in Science. Just as a zip, the enzyme flows on the tape of DNA tangles the lines and welding to the two separate entities, thereby according the traits of nucleic acid that ordinarily are designed to remain inactive. Exactly the opposite of what another enzyme, the "elicasi", which has the role to unwind the DNA during replication of the molecule, being essential for life. The protein discovery is only the first of an entire class of enzymes candidates to be the basis of occurrence of disorders characterized by cardiac or kidney malfunction, with even fatal effects on children.

The habitual consumption of alcohol reduces the size of brain mass. This suggests a study in Neurology magazine. The more we drink, the more our brains will decrease. To suggest this is a report of Wellesley College, Massachusetts, published in the journal Archives of Neurology (a publication of Jama) and this week the American Academy of Neurology. We know that the volume of the brain decreases with age (about 1.9 percent every ten years). This physiological reduction is accompanied by an increase in white matter lesions and both factors - reminiscent of the authors - are related to cognitive problems like memory. While some scholars have suggested a possible positive effect of alcohol on reducing the normal volume of brain mass, this new study suggests just the opposite. Data was collected on a sample of over 1,800 individuals aged between 55 and 64 years, most consumers of alcohol or ex-drinkers, which carried out magnetic resonance (participants in the Framingham Offspring fall Study, a study of the cardiovascular problems started in 1971, for which it was collected information on weekly consumption of alcohol, sex, body mass index and other physiological parameters). The results show that there is a significant correlation between alcohol intake and reduction of brain volume, especially in women which usually consume less alcohol than men.

A newly discovered molecule, Isx-9, is able to make stem cells mature into brain cells. The study in Nature Chemical Biology They came across this behavior, while they were stimulating stem cells to give rise to cardiac cells, when researchers from the Southwestern Medical Center at the University of Texas at Dallas, have discovered that some of the molecules tested have matured however into neural cells. Completely random, therefore, this lead to the isolation of Isx-9, the most powerful among the compounds tested, capable, at very low concentrations, to create differentiated neurons. The study, conducted by researchers led by Jay Schneider and Jenny Hsieh was published on the number of Nature Chemical Biology. Scientists began testing 147 thousand molecules for the project in order to isolate those who could stimulate embryonic stem cells to differentiate into cardiac cells. Stunningly, American researchers have noted that five of these compounds caused the stem to rise to neurons. One of these molecules was selected because it was acting to lower concentrations of the other and was more soluble in water. This, has given life to the compound Isx-9 that has been tested on neural stem cells from the brain, particularly those of the hippo campus of laboratory animals. In the test tube, the stem, under the action of Isx-9, could form the clusters and develop the first steps towards the formation of neurons.

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, researchers have been able to associate a brain activation pattern to the memory of an image. According to a study in Nature. Reading the thoughts of other people is not yet possible, but scientists are working on it. One tool developed by Jack L. Gallant and collaborators at the University of Berkeley (California) is able to recognize an image that a person has just seen through his brain activity. Two of the authors of the study published in Nature - Kendrick Kay and Thomas Naselaris - were submitted in person by observing the experiment at random photographs from a group of 120 during brain scans using functional magnetic resonance (fMri). The results of fMri, combined with a mathematical model, have served to associate the images neuronal activity that a person has just had before our eyes.