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China to build world's largest quake simulator
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May 26, 2009 |
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A Chinese university said Tuesday it had started to build the world's largest quake simulator, a week after the first anniversary of the deadly earthquake in southwest China.
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Attention Demands May Explain Why Texting While Driving Is So Dangerous
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A timely study in the journal Human Factors suggests why texting while driving is riskier than talking on a cell phone or with another passenger. Human factors/ergonomics researchers at the University of Uta ...
Medical simulators can breathe, bleed, give birth -- and help students hone skills
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It was a high-stress situation for three nurses who had never delivered babies: A woman was 32 weeks pregnant, in pain and having contractions.
Taiwan hit by 6.4-magnitude quake: USGS
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Dec 20, 2009 |
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A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake hit off eastern Taiwan on Saturday evening, the US Geological Survey said, the biggest tremor to rock the island this year.
Underwater gas may hold clues on Turkey quake risk
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Dec 15, 2009 |
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Natural gas that lies under Turkey's Marmara Sea close to Istanbul could provide advance warning of an earthquake experts believe will hit the country's largest city, scientists said on Tuesday.
Tremors between slip events: More evidence of great quake danger to Seattle
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Dec 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For most of a decade, scientists have documented unfelt and slow-moving seismic events, called episodic tremor and slip, showing up in regular cycles under the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state and Vancouver ...
Neuroscience in the driving seat
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 11, 2009 |
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It emerged today that more drivers are using hand-held mobile phones than two years ago, despite the introduction of tougher penalties. The Transport Research Laboratory is worried because phone-using drivers ...
A special kind of flight training
Dec 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new generation of flight simulators will attempt to make air traffic safer.
Life after silicon: Using exotic materials to help microchips keep improving
Dec 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The huge increases in the power and capacity of computers, cell phones and communications networks in the last 40 years have been the result of ever-shrinking silicon transistors. But silicon ...
Samoan Tsunami wave was 46 feet high
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Dec 04, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The tsunami that killed more than 200 people in the Samoan islands and Tonga earlier this year towered up to 46 feet (14 meters) high - more then twice as tall as most of the buildings it slammed into, scientists ...
Quake prediction model developed
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Dec 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The third in a series of papers in the journal Nature completes the case for a new method of predicting earthquakes.
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