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World's First Transcontinental Anesthesia
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| Videoconferences may be known for putting people to sleep, but never like this. Thomas Hemmerling and his team of McGill's Department of Anesthesia achieved a world first on August 30, 2010, when they treated patients undergoing thyroid gland surgery in Italy remotely from Montreal ...continue
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Hurricane Earl: the Astronaut View
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| The relatively placid view from the International Space Station belied the potent forces at work in Hurricane Earl as it hovered over the tropical Atlantic Ocean on August 30. With maximum sustained winds of 135 miles (215 kilometers) per hour, the storm was classified as a category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale as it passed north of the Virgin Islands ...continue
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Greenland by Air
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| This photo of the Sondrestrom Glacier in Greenland was taken from a window on NASA's Gulfstream III environmental research aircraft as it flew along the Fjord outside of Kangerlussuaq on June 4th ...continue
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Microbes are Eating BP Oil Without Using up Oxygen
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| Government scientists studying the BP disaster are reporting the best possible outcome: microbes are consuming the oil in the Gulf without depleting the oxygen in the water and creating "dead zones" where fish cannot survive. Outside scientists said this so far vindicates the difficult and much-debated decision by BP and the government to use massive amounts of chemical dispersants deep underwater to break up the oil ...continue
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Parasitic Wasp
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A quarter-inch-long parasitic wasp, Peristenus digoneutis, prepares to lay an egg in a tarnished plant bug nymph ...continue
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Transition Metal Catalysts could be Key to Life
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| One of the big, unsolved problems in explaining how life arose on Earth is a chicken-and-egg paradox: how could the basic biochemicals -- such as amino acids and nucleotides -- have arisen before the biological catalysts (proteins or ribozymes) existed to carry out their formation? Scientists propose that a third type of catalyst could have jumpstarted metabolism and life itself, deep in hydrothermal ocean vents ...continue
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New Aerospace Research Center Takes Flight
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| Flying will be a lot safer and more efficient thanks to breakthrough collision avoidance, emergency landing and separation management technologies being developed at a new joint Queensland University of Technology and CSIRO aerospace research center. The technologies could also allow unmanned aircraft to perform beneficial operations such as search and rescue, bush fire fighting and monitoring ash clouds from volcanoes ...continue
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