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TECHNOLOGY
Low blood oxygen on Everest offers treatment hope
07 Jan 2009 22:00:04 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Michael Kahn LONDON, Jan 7 (Reuters) - A team of British doctors conducting experiments in the "Death Zone" of Mount Everest has recorded the lowest levels of blood oxygen in ... 

FEATURE-Yellow submarine to probe Antarctica glacier
07 Jan 2009 12:19:48 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent PUNTA ARENAS, Chile, Jan 7 (Reuters) - A yellow robot submarine will dive under an ice shelf in Antarctica to seek clues to world ocean level rises in one ... 

Scientists doubt Europe can wipe out measles by 2010
07 Jan 2009 00:01:17 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Michael Kahn LONDON, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Too many children remain unvaccinated against measles for Europe to have any realistic hope of eliminating the disease by 2010, researchers said on ... 

Dutch study sheds light on virus that causes SARS
05 Jan 2009 22:00:06 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Michael Kahn LONDON, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Dutch researchers have built a three-dimensional model of a type of virus that causes SARS in a step that could one day help in the battle against ... 

Pink iguanas unseen by Darwin offer evolution clue
05 Jan 2009 22:00:05 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Michael Kahn LONDON, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Pink iguanas unknown to Charles Darwin during his visits to the Galapagos islands may provide evidence of species divergence far earlier than the ... 

New reptiles found in Tanzania's shrinking forests
05 Jan 2009 12:33:05 GMT
Source: Reuters

Basalt rock wall found in ocean near Taiwan
05 Jan 2009 05:46:27 GMT
Source: Reuters

Infection cuts mosquitoes' lives short
02 Jan 2009 21:32:18 GMT
Source: Reuters

Coral growth slows sharply on Great Barrier Reef
01 Jan 2009 19:00:01 GMT
Source: Reuters

Global whale "hot spot" discovered off East Timor
31 Dec 2008 05:02:56 GMT
Source: Reuters



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