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CSI: Pisco, Peru -- Study uncovers tectonic events behind earthquake

A magnitude 8.0. earthquake destroyed 90 percent of the city of Pisco, Peru on August 16, 2007. The event killed 595 people, while another 318 were missing. Tsunami waves were observed locally, off the shore ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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First ever direct measurement of the Earth's rotation

A group with researchers of the Technical University of Munich, Germany, are the first to plot changes in the Earth's axis through laboratory measurements. To do this, they constructed the world's most stable ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

'Double tsunami' doubled Japan destruction

Researchers have discovered that the destructive tsunami generated by the March 2011 Tōhoku earthquake was a long-hypothesized "merging tsunami" that doubled in intensity over rugged ocean ridges, amplifying ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A second look at supernovae light: Universe's expansion may be understood without dark energy

(PhysOrg.com) -- The 2011 Nobel Prize in physics, awarded just a few weeks ago, went to research on the light from Type 1a supernovae, which shows that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. The ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 24, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (51) | comments 185 | with audio podcast feature

NASA Mars research helps find buried water on Earth

A NASA-led team has used radar sounding technology developed to explore the subsurface of Mars to create high-resolution maps of freshwater aquifers buried deep beneath an Earth desert, in the first use of ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Flight-tests autonomous multi-target, multi-user tracking capability

The Naval Research Laboratory and the Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) through the support of the Office of Naval Research (ONR), has shown an autonomous multi-sensor motion-tracking and interrogation system ...

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Research confirms it's a small world, after all

(PhysOrg.com) -- A NASA-led research team has confirmed what Walt Disney told us all along: Earth really is a small world, after all.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 16, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Scientists track motions of shifting plates using GPS sensors

The Pacific Northwest is a restless place. The ground is being shoved by tectonic plates. Snow-capped volcanoes inflate and deflate in concert with the creep of molten rock. Coastlines bulge as tension builds on an offshore ...

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created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

GPS stations can detect clandestine nuclear tests

At the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) meeting this week, American researchers are unveiling a new tool for detecting illegal nuclear explosions: the Earth's global positioning system (GPS).

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created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers release first large observational study of 9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake

When the magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake and resulting tsunami struck off the northeast coast of Japan on March 11, they caused widespread destruction and death. Using observations from a dense regional ...

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created May 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Gravity Probe B confirms two Einstein theories

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford and NASA researchers have confirmed two predictions of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, concluding one of the space agency's longest-running projects.

Physics / General Physics

created May 04, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (27) | comments 86 | with audio podcast


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