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Magmatically triggered slow earthquake discovered at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii

Magmatically triggered slow earthquake discovered at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 29, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 1

From June 17-19th 2007, Kilauea experienced a new dike intrusion, where magma rapidly moved from a storage reservoir beneath the summit into the east rift zone and extended the rift zone by as much as 1 meter.





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More than 18 million cubic metres of sand are set to be poured onto the new coastal band of dunes until 2011

Dutch build more dunes against rising seas

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

On the beach at Monster, bulldozers painstakingly turn sand dredged from the bottom of the North Sea bed into dunes in an ambitious effort to safeguard the Netherlands from flooding.


Medical establishment prevents nurses from assuming new roles

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Physicians still retain the bulk of decision-making power over nurses in Quebec - a situation that's detrimental to evolving nursing roles. According to a new study by Université de Montréal researchers, published ...


Feds ignored Medicare scam warnings for years

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- For three years, the federal agency in charge of preventing Medicare fraud repeatedly ignored internal watchdog warnings about swindlers stealing millions of dollars by scamming several programs, documents show.


Study uses satellite imagery to identify active magma systems in East Africa's Rift Valley

Study uses satellite imagery to identify active magma systems in East Africa's Rift Valley

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A team from the University of Miami, University of El Paso and University of Rochester have employed Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) images compiled over a decade to study volcanic activity ...


African desert rift confirmed as new ocean in the making

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (37) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 2005, a gigantic, 35-mile-long rift broke open the desert ground in Ethiopia. At the time, some geologists believed the rift was the beginning of a new ocean as two parts of the African continent pulled ...


'Blue energy' seems feasible and offers considerable benefits

Technology / Energy

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Generating energy on a large scale by mixing salt and fresh water is both technically possible and practical. The worldwide potential for this clean form of energy - 'blue energy' or 'blue electricity' - is enormous. However, ...


Software That's Resilient Against Hacker Attack

Software That's Resilient Against Hacker Attack

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers headed by Martin Rinard, a professor of computer science at MIT, have developed new software that automatically patches errors in deployed software in a matter of minutes.


Study Shows Thousands of Consumer Internet Connectivity Devices Are Vulnerable to Attack

Study Shows Thousands of Consumer Internet Connectivity Devices Are Vulnerable to Attack

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Following news reports that 65,000 modems and wireless routers used by Time Warner Cable customers are vulnerable to attack by hackers, a Columbia University expert on computer security and ...


From ecological Soviet-era ruin, a sea is reborn (AP)

From ecological Soviet-era ruin, a sea is reborn

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 25, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 3

(AP) -- Standing on the shore under the relentless Central Asian sun, Badarkhan Prikeyev drew on a cigarette and squinted into the distance as one fishing boat after another returned with the day's catch.


New 'consumer-intelligence' technology will compile detailed profiles

Technology / Hi Tech

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Buying Huggies at Target the other evening -- size N, for newborn -- I noticed that the back of the receipt was printed with a coupon for infant formula. Cash registers are so clever these days. Target, I've been told, is ...



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