Tag: Dying

Arctic researcher warns the ‘the ice is dying’ after landmark expedition

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The icy landscape of the Arctic as we imagine it will no longer exist in just a few decades, researchers returning from a major expedition to the frozen north have warned.

“This world is threatened. We really saw how the ice is disappearing,” said Markus Rex, leader of the largest-ever Arctic expedition, at a press conference Monday.

Researchers involved in the expedition called MOSAiC — Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate — returned on the German vessel, the Polarstern, which spent more than a year at sea.

For much of the mission, the Polarstern was carried by the natural ice drift, pushed on by the wind, while researchers from 20 countries collected data about the environment and climate change. No other expedition to date has been able to collect similar evidence from the center of the Arctic, with the vessel spending weeks within 125 miles of the

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Biggest North Pole mission returns from ‘dying Arctic’

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Researchers on the world’s biggest mission to the North Pole will return to dock on Monday, bringing home devastating proof of a dying Arctic Ocean and warnings of ice-free summers in just decades.

The German Alfred Wegener Institute’s Polarstern ship is set to return to the port of Bremerhaven after 389 days spent drifting through the Arctic trapped in ice, allowing scientists to gather vital information on the effects of global warming in the region.

The team of several hundred scientists from 20 countries have seen for themselves the dramatic effects of global warming on ice in the region, considered “the epicentre of climate change”, according to mission leader Markus Rex.

“We witnessed how the Arctic ocean is dying,” Rex told AFP. “We saw this process right outside our windows, or when we walked on the brittle ice.”

Underlining how much of the sea ice has melted away, Rex said

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People with Parkinson’s disease have a higher risk of dying from COVID-19 — ScienceDaily

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A new study of approximately 80,000 patients shows that people with Parkinson’s disease (PD) have a 30% higher risk of dying from COVID-19 than people without the neurodegenerative condition.

The new analysis conducted by researchers with University of Iowa Health Care based on patient data in the TriNetX COVID-19 research network suggests that Parkinson’s disease is an independent risk factor for dying from COVID-19.

The UI research team led by neurologists Qiang Zhang, MD, and Nandakumar Narayanan, MD, PhD, identified the COVID-19 patient cohort as of July 15 and analyzed the mortality data eight weeks later. They found that 5.5% (4,290 out of 78,355) of COVID-19 patients without PD died compared to 21.3% (148 of 694) COVID-19 patients who also had PD.

However, the patients with PD were generally older, more likely to be male, and less likely to be African American than the patients without PD. All of these

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Latest TSMC 7nm Data Proves Intel And Other Dinosaur Chipmakers Aren’t Even Close To Dying Yet. A Strong Base Of Revenues For TSMC (NYSE:TSM)

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Where new school techies and old school dinosaur investors clash heads is on historical versus future success. No story is better represented by that than the still-smoldering battlefield between armchair investors about Intel (INTC) and AMD (AMD). I don’t need to educate most anyone about the scathing response by Wall Street to Intel’s production delay into 7nm. We don’t need a dissection of the stock chart for AMD to comprehend that they are currently priced to rob Intel of massive market share in processors.

I won’t take a stand on that hairy debate, or on other similar discussions that really illustrate the growing divide between “growth” and “value”, though the same nuts and bolts concept I provide with this analysis on TSMC’s (TSM) recent results can be applied to other hardware debates (and maybe one I can elaborate on if there’s enough interest):

  • Traditional servers IBM (IBM), Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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This Is What The ‘Last Gasp’ Of A Dying Sun-Like Star Looks Like

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Our Sun is destined to someday die in a known, predictable way.

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