News tagged with north
SKorea and US forge deal to fight cyber attacks
May 04, 2009 |
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South Korea and the United States have agreed to cooperate in fighting cyber attacks against their defence networks from countries including China and North Korea, officials said Monday.
Sea Salt Holds Clues to Climate Change
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- We know that average sea levels have risen over the past century, and that global warming is to blame. But what is climate change doing to the saltiness, or salinity, of our oceans?
NKorea rocket launch partial success: US expert
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 05, 2009 |
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North Korea's rocket launch is a partial technological success on the way to building a long-range missile, even if Pyongyang failed to put a satellite in orbit, the former director of the US missile defense agency said ...
Atlantic dynamo turned up the heat over Medieval Europe
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the April 3rd edition of Science a collaborative group of scientists from Switzerland, California and the UK report that medieval climate over Europe was heated by the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). ...
Final rocket launches, measures aurora movement
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 24, 2009 |
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It's been a long wait, but it was worth it. The Black Brant XII sounding rocket with the CASCADES II experiment launched and flew through an active aurora display March 20 at 3:04 a.m. Alaska Daylight Time. The successful ...
Resupplied North Pole explorers resume trek
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 20, 2009 |
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Three British explorers fighting to survive a gruelling trek to the North Pole finally resumed their journey Friday after receiving vital supplies of food, fuel and equipment, organizers said.
Flight dispatched with supplies for North Pole team
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 18, 2009 |
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A plane set off Wednesday during a break in bad weather to re-supply three stranded British researchers, who are trapped and fighting to survive in the North Pole, organizers of the aid effort said.
Google taps top UK ad exec to run US sales
Mar 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Google is promoting a top advertising executive in Europe to oversee the Internet search leader's sales in North America and South America.
Monitoring of rare whales near NY harbor ends
Mar 15, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Monitoring for endangered right whales off New York harbor is ending because the project has lost financing in the current budget crunch.
Some fear Navy sonar may harm Fla.'s right whales
Mar 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- In the blue-green surf, 11 endangered North Atlantic right whales surface, jump and shoot mist high into the air through their blow holes.
iTeacher: Program Brings Web 2.0 to the Classroom
Mar 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Online media and social networking Web sites - Web 2.0 standards like Facebook and YouTube - are the new tools for communication and entertainment among K-12 students. Safety and inappropriate content issues, ...
Dell cuts NC, Tenn. jobs; further details scarce
Mar 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Dell Inc., the world's second-largest computer maker, said Wednesday it is laying off workers around the world but would not say how many or where.
Right whale sedation enables disentanglement effort
Mar 11, 2009 |
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On Friday, March 6, 2009, for the first time ever, a North Atlantic right whale that had been severely entangled in fishing gear, was administered a sedation mixture that made it possible for rescuers to remove 90 percent ...
Researchers Work to Make Wood a New Energy Source
Mar 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Is wood the new coal? Researchers at North Carolina State University think so, and they are part of a team working to turn woodchips into a substitute for coal by using a process called torrefaction that ...
Report: Images from Mars lander show liquid water
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Did NASA's Phoenix Mars lander find evidence of liquid water before it froze to death?
