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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.


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 ...


Understanding ocean climate

Understanding ocean climate

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

High-resolution computer simulations performed by scientists at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS) are helping to understand the inflow of North Atlantic water to the Arctic Ocean and how ...


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 ...


Arctic lake sediments show warming, unique ecological changes in recent decades

Arctic lake sediments show warming, unique ecological changes in recent decades

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (9) | comments 2

An analysis of sediment cores indicates that biological and chemical changes occurring at a remote Arctic lake are unprecedented over the past 200,000 years and likely are the result of human-caused climate ...


Researchers Establish Common Seasonal Patterns Among Bacterial Communities in Arctic Rivers

Researchers Establish Common Seasonal Patterns Among Bacterial Communities in Arctic Rivers

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research on bacterial communities throughout six large Arctic river ecosystems reveals predictable temporal patterns, suggesting that scientists could use these communities as markers ...



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