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Flooding of Ancient Salton Sea Linked to San Andreas Earthquakes
June 27, 2011 Southern California's Salton Sea, once a large natural lake fed by the Colorado River, may play an important role in the earthquake cycle of the southern San Andreas Fault and may have triggered ... > full story -
Neutrino Oscillations Caught in the Act
June 23, 2011 Physicists at the T2K experiment in Japan have announced that, for the first time, they have most likely detected the transformation of muon neutrinos into electron neutrinos. With a probability of ... > full story -
Stiff Sediments Made 2004 Sumatra Earthquake Deadliest in History
June 22, 2011 Geoscientists have discovered an unusual geological formation that helps explain how an undersea earthquake off the coast of Sumatra in December 2004 spawned the deadliest tsunami in recorded ... > full story -
Researchers Discover New Type of Neutrino Oscillation
June 15, 2011 The international T2K collaboration has observed an indication of a new type of neutrino transformation or oscillation from a muon neutrino to an electron neutrino. Evidence of this new type of ... > full story -
Neutrinos Change Flavors While Crossing Japan: Findings Shed Light on Why Universe Is Made of Matter Instead of Anti-Matter
June 15, 2011 By shooting a beam of neutrinos through a small slice of the Earth under Japan, physicists say they've caught the particles changing their stripes in new ways. These observations may one day help ... > full story -
New Sensor to Measure Structural Stresses Can Heal Itself When Broken
June 15, 2011 Researchers have designed a sensor that can measure strain in structural materials and is capable of healing itself -- an important advance for collecting data to help us make informed decisions ... > full story -
Communicating in a Crisis: Researchers Devise New Technique to Help Rescuers Communicate After Terrorist Attacks
June 9, 2011 In the aftermath of the London bombings mobile phones and radios stopped working making the already tricky rescue operation even more difficult. Now experts have developed a solution to ensure ... > full story -
Helping the Aged During Natural Disasters
June 3, 2011 When earthquake, tsunami, tornado or flood strike, among the most vulnerable group are the elderly. Researchers in New Zealand suggest that emergency response plans must take into account the ... > full story -
Tsunami Sensor Detects Mysterious Background Signal in Panama
June 3, 2011 An unusual signal detected by the seismic monitoring station at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's research facility on Barro Colorado Island results from waves in Lake Gatun, the ... > full story -
Cholera in Haiti: Universal Vaccination Campaign Is Essential to Ending Crisis, Experts Say
May 31, 2011 Debate about the public health response to Haiti's cholera epidemic continues as the crisis enters its ninth month, with some experts arguing that a vaccination campaign in Haiti would be neither ... > full story
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