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Researchers distinguish waves from mine collapses from other seismic activities

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 10, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers have devised a technology that can distinguish mine collapses from other seismic activity. Using the large seismic disturbance associated with the Crandall Canyon mine collapse last August, Lawrence Livermore ...





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Big quakes spark jolts worldwide

Big quakes spark jolts worldwide

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 25, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (38) | comments 1

Until 1992, when California’s magnitude-7.3 Landers earthquake set off small jolts as far away as Yellowstone National Park, scientists did not believe large earthquakes sparked smaller tremors at distant ...


Making monster waves

Making monster waves

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Rogue waves -- giant waves that spring up suddenly and tower over the seas around them—have inspired physicists to look for an analogue in light. These high-intensity pulses can cross large distances without ...


DU professor advises families to refocus for holidays to ease financial tension (w/ Video)

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

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

Martha Wadsworth, associate professor of psychology at the University of Denver (DU), says during the holidays families should focus on what has been proven to matter most in psychological research - quality family time.


Research Analyzes Flow Structure Under Breaking Waves

Research Analyzes Flow Structure Under Breaking Waves

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In landlocked South Dakota, hundreds of miles and 1,600 feet of elevation from the nearest ocean, South Dakota State University professor Francis Ting studies the structure of breaking waves like those that ...


Alaskan earthquake in 2002 set off tremors on Vancouver Island

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 01, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Perhaps it was just a matter of sympathy, but tremors rippled the landscape of Vancouver Island, the westernmost part of British Columbia, in 2002 during a major Alaskan earthquake. Geoscientists at the University of Washington ...


Rip currents pose greater risk to swimmers than to shoreline

Rip currents pose greater risk to swimmers than to shoreline

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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

Rip currents -- powerful, channeled currents of water flowing away from the shore -- represent a danger to human life and property. Rip currents are responsible for more than one hundred deaths on our nation's ...


Tsunami waves reasonably likely to strike Israel

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

"There is a likely chance of tsunami waves reaching the shores of Israel," says Dr. Beverly Goodman of the Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences at the University of Haifa following encompassing geoarchaeological research ...


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Special brain wave boost slows motion

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 5

Researchers have found that they can make people move in slow motion by boosting one type of brain wave. The findings offer some of the first proof that brain waves can have a direct influence on behavior, ...


The narrow line between love and jealousy

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new study carried out at the University of Haifa has found that the hormone oxytocin, the "love hormone", which affects behaviors such as trust, empathy and generosity, also affects opposite behaviors, such as jealousy ...


New way to monitor faults may help predict earthquakes

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created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists at the Carnegie Institution have found a way to monitor the strength of geologic faults deep in the Earth. This finding could prove to be a boon for earthquake prediction by pinpointing those faults that are likely ...



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