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Ice slurry technology can save heart attack victims, surgery patients

Ice slurry technology can save heart attack victims, surgery patients

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 03, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- When treating cardiac arrest victims, doctors can't call a time-out. Without the ability to obtain fresh oxygen from blood pumped through the body, brain cells start to die in just minutes. ...





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NASA Ice Satellite Maps Profound Polar Thinning

NASA Ice Satellite Maps Profound Polar Thinning

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (11) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have used NASA’s Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) to compose the most comprehensive picture of changing glaciers along the coast of the Greenland and Antarctic ...


You scream, I scream... there's something in my ice cream!

You scream, I scream... there's something in my ice cream!

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 21, 2006 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Looks like ice cream. Smells like ice cream. But does it sound like ice cream? A new ultrasonic technology could tell ice cream manufacturers if foreign objects have fallen into their tasty product before a ...


Ice cream researchers making sweet strides with 'functional foods'

Ice cream researchers making sweet strides with 'functional foods' (w/ Video)

Chemistry / Other

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A comfort food, a tasty treat, an indulgence - ice cream conjures feelings of happiness and satisfaction for millions. Ice cream researchers at the University of Missouri have discovered ways to make ice cream ...


New rechargeable zinc-air batteries coming soon

New rechargeable zinc-air batteries coming soon

Technology / Energy

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (45) | comments 15

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new breed of rechargeable zinc-air batteries is soon to be available, and may replace lithium-ion batteries in cell phones, laptops and other consumer items. Lithium-ion batteries store ...


On their trip, Pen Hadow (R) and Ann Daniels found the average thickness of the ice floes was 1.8 metres

Arctic ice cap 'to disappear in future summers'

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (31) | comments 21

The Arctic ice cap will disappear completely in summer months within 20 to 30 years, a polar research team said as they presented findings from an expedition led by adventurer Pen Hadow.


Wet ethanol production process yields more ethanol and more co-products

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Using a wet ethanol production method that begins by soaking corn kernels rather than grinding them, results in more gallons of ethanol and more usable co-products, giving ethanol producers a bigger bang for their buck - ...


NASA flies over Antarctica to measure icemelt

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (9) | comments 1

(AP) -- Hoping to better understand how a melting Antarctica could swamp the planet, a NASA plane outfitted with lasers and ground-penetrating radar made its first flight over the icy continent on Friday.


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Giant Antarctic iceberg heads towards N.Zealand: experts

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

A giant iceberg twice the length of Beijing's "Bird's Nest" Stadium has been spotted floating off Australia and could be headed for New Zealand, scientists said on Thursday.


Lasers from space show thinning of Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 1.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The most comprehensive picture of the rapidly thinning glaciers along the coastline of both the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets has been created using satellite lasers. The findings are an important step forward in the ...


Mysteriously warm times in Antarctica

Mysteriously warm times in Antarctica

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (26) | comments 31

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of Antarctica's past climate reveals that temperatures during the warm periods between ice ages (interglacials) may have been higher than previously thought. The latest analysis ...



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