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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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Google-Fujitsu join 'smart objects' alliance

Technology / Hi Tech

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Internet powerhouse Google and Japanese electronics giant Fujitsu have joined an alliance to promote the ability of objects from appliances to cars to communicate with one another online.


African leaf-eating monkeys are 'likely to be wiped out' by climate change

African leaf-eating monkeys are 'likely to be wiped out' by climate change

Biology / Ecology

created 9 hours ago | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Monkey species will become 'increasingly at risk of extinction' because of global warming, according to new research published this week.


Caltech scientists discover fog on Titan

Scientists discover fog on Titan

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 14 hours ago | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 2

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, looks to be the only place in the solar system—aside from our home planet, Earth—with copious quantities of liquid (largely, liquid methane and ethane) sitting on its surface. ...


Studying how black holes grow

Studying how black holes grow

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Black holes are some of the most exotic objects in the universe. They are the final evolutionary stage of giant stars much larger than the sun. When these stars explode, their cores collapse down to the size ...


Glint of Sunlight Confirms Liquid in Northern Lake District of Titan

Glint of Sunlight Confirms Liquid in Northern Lake District of Titan

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Cassini Spacecraft has captured the first flash of sunlight reflected off a lake on Saturn's moon Titan, confirming the presence of liquid on the part of the moon dotted with many large, ...


Avatar's moon Pandora could be real

Avatar's moon Pandora could be real

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (17) | comments 7

In the new blockbuster Avatar, humans visit the habitable - and inhabited - alien moon called Pandora. Life-bearing moons like Pandora or the Star Wars forest moon of Endor are a staple of science fiction. ...


Oracle expects EU to approve Sun deal next month (AP)

Oracle expects EU to approve Sun deal next month

Technology / Business

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Oracle Corp. said Thursday that its profit jumped 12.5 percent in the latest quarter and that it expects the European Union will finally approve its $7.4 billion purchase of Sun Microsystems Inc. ...


Computer simulation strengthens link between climate change and release of subsea methane

Computer simulation strengthens link between climate change and release of subsea methane

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (19) | comments 17

(PhysOrg.com) -- A first-of-its-kind computer simulation that mirrors real-world observations of methane bubbling up from a seabed in the Arctic Ocean provides further evidence that warming oceans may unleash ...


Colliding auroras produce an explosion of light

Colliding auroras produce an explosion of light

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A network of cameras deployed around the Arctic in support of NASA's THEMIS mission has made a startling discovery about the Northern Lights. Sometimes, vast curtains of aurora borealis collide, ...


Fertilizer use not always helpful in revegetation efforts

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Companies and communities trying to restore vegetation on damaged northern landscapes should think twice about using fertilizer to stimulate growth according to new research published in the November issue of Arctic, Antarctic an ...



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