News tagged with slab avalanche
Avalanches -- triggered from the valley
Dec 02, 2008 |
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Everybody knows that skiers swishing down steep slopes can cause extensive slab avalanches. But there is a less well known phenomenon: A person skiing a gentle slope in the valley triggers a slab avalanche ...
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Who's most likely to be swept away?
Dec 01, 2008 |
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If you think the person most likely to be involved in an avalanche this winter will be a young hot-dogger who doesn't know any better, think again.
Researchers demonstrate 'avalanche effect' in solar cells
May 26, 2008 |
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Researchers at TU Delft (Netherlands) and the FOM Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter have found irrefutable proof that the so-called avalanche effect by electrons occurs in specific, very small ...
Carbon nanotube avalanche process nearly doubles current
Feb 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- By pushing carbon nanotubes close to their breaking point, researchers at the University of Illinois have demonstrated a remarkable increase in the current-carrying capacity of the nanotubes, ...
Report: Slab may fall from Eiger any day
Jul 10, 2006 |
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A geologist in Switzerland is warning Europe a massive rock slab may break away soon from the treacherous mountain of Eiger.
Digital avalanche rescue dog
Dec 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A novel geolocation system makes use of signals from Galileo, the future European satellite navigation system, to locate avalanche victims carrying an avalanche transceiver or a cellphone, to the precision ...
Avalanche photodiodes target bioterrorism agents
Jun 26, 2008 |
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Researchers have shown that a new class of ultraviolet photodiode could help meet the U.S. military's pressing requirement for compact, reliable and cost-effective sensors to detect anthrax and other bioterrorism ...
Avoid Inviting Termites to 'Dinner' at Your House
Mar 26, 2009 |
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It is the nightmare of many a homeowner: Termites merrily eating away at the family castle.
Tonga quake not conducive to tsunami
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 06, 2007 |
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Seismologists at Washington University in St. Louis and their colleagues in Australia, Japan and Tonga have determined why a large earthquake in Tonga did not cause a large tsunami. A tsunami warning was issued ...
Making quantum cryptography practical
Apr 30, 2009 |
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Quantum cryptography, a completely secure means of communication, is much closer to being used practically as researchers from Toshiba and Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory have now developed high speed detectors ...
Liquid water found flowing on Mars? Not yet
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 29, 2008 |
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Liquid water has not been found on the Martian surface within the last decade after all, according to new research. The finding casts doubt on the 2006 report that the bright spots in some Martian gullies ...
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