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Italy: 3 brothers suffer heart attacks on same day

Three Sicilian brothers had heart attacks on the same day which killed two of them, while the third was saved because was visiting his mother in hospital, the Corriere della Sera daily said Tuesday.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Mount Etna bursts into life

(PhysOrg.com) -- Europe's largest active volcano, Mount Etna on the Italian island of Sicily, erupted briefly yesterday sending flames and ash hundreds of metres into the air.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 13, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Mount Etna's mystery explained?

Internationally renowned geophysicist Dr Wouter Schellart has developed the first dynamic model to explain the mystery of the largest and most fascinating volcano in Europe, Mount Etna.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 07, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Technology and Art Unite to Create Dance Show Based on Volcanic Sounds of the Earth (w/Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time ever, a modern dance company has performed to music generated from seismic data, recorded from four volcanoes across three continents. This unique event was facilitated by DANTE, the provider ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Volcanic eruption signals simulated in lab for first time

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, seismic signals that precede a volcanic eruption have been simulated and visualized in 3-D under controlled pressure conditions in a laboratory. The ability to conduct such simulations ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 10, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Hot spot on Enceladus causes plumes

Enceladus, the tiny satellite of Saturn, is colder than ice, but data gathered by the Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn and Titan has detected a hot spot that could mean there is life in the old moon after ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 10, 2007 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Etna produces catalyst: direct synthesis of carbon nanotubes with volcanic rock

Since their discovery in the early 1990s, carbon nanotubes and carbon nanofibers—tiny structures made of pure carbon—have been used in a wide variety of applications. They have become indispensable in the nanosciences and ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 06, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (17) | comments 0

Giant 8,000-year-old tsunami is studied

Italian scientists say geological evidence suggests a giant tsunami resulted from the collapse of the eastern flanks of Mount Etna nearly 8,000 years ago.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 28, 2006 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (23) | comments 0

In Brief: Mount Etna eruption: no immediate danger

Italy's Mount Etna -- the largest active volcano in Europe -- erupted for a third-day Monday, sending ash, fire and rocks more than 800 feet into the air.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 18, 2006 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (25) | comments 0

Envisat's rainbow vision detects ground moving at pace fingernails grow

Originally developed to pinpoint attacking aircraft during World War Two, today's advanced radar technology can detect a very different moving target: shifts of the Earth's crust that occur as slowly as the ...

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created Aug 06, 2004 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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