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Treatment lowers temp, saves patients in cardiac arrest

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 30, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Nearly 200,000 out-of-hospital incidents of sudden cardiac arrest occur among U.S. residents each year. For every minute care is delayed, survival is decreased.





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Arctic at warmest levels in 2,000 years or more

Arctic at warmest levels in 2,000 years or more

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (64) | comments 25

Arctic temperatures in the 1990s reached their warmest level of any decade in at least 2,000 years, new research indicates. The study, which incorporates geologic records and computer simulations, provides ...


New NASA Satellite Survey Reveals Dramatic Arctic Sea Ice Thinning

New NASA Satellite Survey Reveals Dramatic Arctic Sea Ice Thinning

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (65) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Arctic sea ice thinned dramatically between the winters of 2004 and 2008, with thin seasonal ice replacing thick older ice as the dominant type for the first time on record. The new results, ...


New Arctic satellite data shows Arctic literally on thin ice

New Arctic satellite data shows Arctic literally on thin ice

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (79) | comments 43

The latest data from NASA and the University of Colorado at Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center show the continuation of a decade-long trend of shrinking sea ice extent in the Arctic, including new ...


Ice Cold Sunrise on Mars

Ice Cold Sunrise on Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 27, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- From the location of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, above the Martian arctic circle, the sun does not set during the peak of the Martian summer.


Arctic land and seas account for up to 25 percent of world's carbon sink

Arctic land and seas account for up to 25 percent of world's carbon sink

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (8) | comments 0

In a new study in the journal Ecological Monographs, ecologists estimate that Arctic lands and oceans are responsible for up to 25 percent of the global net sink of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Under curren ...


Partial Solar Eclipse visible from the UK on the morning of 1st August

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jul 25, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (17) | comments 0

On 1st August 2008 there will be a total eclipse of the Sun, visible from Canada, northern Greenland, Svalbard, the Barents Sea, Russia, Mongolia and China. From the whole of the British Isles observers will see a partial ...


Vast expanses of Arctic ice melt in summer heat (AP)

Vast expanses of Arctic ice melt in summer heat

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (15) | comments 5

(AP) -- The Arctic Ocean has given up tens of thousands more square miles (square kilometers) of ice on Sunday in a relentless summer of melt, with scientists watching through satellite eyes for a possible ...


Tackling new Arctic challenges from space

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

International scientists, researchers and decision makers met at the 'Space and the Arctic workshop' to identify the needs and challenges of working and living in the rapidly changing Arctic and to explore how space-based ...


Ecologists use oceanographic data to predict future climate change

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 06, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (12) | comments 8

Earth scientists are attempting to predict the future impacts of climate change by reconstructing the past behavior of Arctic climate and ocean circulation. In a November special issue of the journal Ecology, a group of sci ...


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Sun cutting up to 3,000 jobs as awaits Oracle deal

Technology / Business

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to eliminate up to 3,000 jobs, or 10 percent of its worldwide work force, as it awaits a takeover by Oracle Corp., a deal being held up by antitrust regulators in Europe.



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