Bridges, nuclear power plants, dams and other strategically-important buildings could be “cloaked” against the seismic waves earthquakes produce. This could be achieved by using innovative metamaterials, constructs that do not exist in nature, and which can easily steer seismic waves.
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13 February 2012
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Investigators at the Princeton University announce the creation of a new computer model that can be used to determine how seismic waves would affect the planet, were Earth to be hit by a meteorite.
Such a study could have important applications if a space rock were ever to be detected heading our way. Naturally, the... |
27 October 2011
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A collaboration of researchers at NASA and international university partners is now providing the most extensive and in-depth view on the magnitude 9 earthquake that devastated Japan on March 11, 2011. The tremor occurred at 2:46 pm Tokyo time (0546 GMT), and was initially classified as a magnitude 8.9. Later reclass... |
20 May 2011
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For many years, experts have been trying to figure out how is it that the Colorado plateau formed. Though they conducted a large number of studies, the issue still remained cloudy. Now, a theory is proposing an interesting approach to looking at this issue. Landscape features such as the Grand Canyon and Monument Val... |
3 May 2011
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A new research paper published in the latest issue of the esteemed journal Nature shows that lighter chemical elements such as sulfur and oxygen tend to gather at the edge of our planet's core. The data were derived following an ultrasound analysis-like study of Earth, experts say.Seismology experts say that the... |
9 December 2010
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A team of researchers has produced a new method of analyzing the inner parts of the plant using seismic waves, in an approach similar to creating a seismological CAT scan. This could help shed more light on the behavior of volcanoes, and on the phenomena underlying earthquakes. Geologists are very excited about the n... |
5 November 2010
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A new research carried out by researchers at the University of Bristol in the Hudson Bay region in Canada, suggests that plate tectonics were inactive when our planet was younger and hotter.There are still many unknown things about the processes that gave Earth's crust its current shape, and the beginning of the... |
13 September 2010
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For many years, science books have been presenting the areas underneath the surface of the Earth, the upper and lower mantles, and the core, as regions that are relatively homogeneous. However, experts know that this is as far from the truth as it gets. These planetary layers are actually riddled with all sorts of st... |
12 May 2010
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According to a new scientific paper, published in the latest issue of the respected scientific journal Geology, it would appear that glaciers can experience the effects of so-called “icequakes” several hundreds of times each day. The events, which shake ice caps to their very core, can send out shock wave... |
2 April 2010
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One of the main problems plaguing the development of viable nuclear fusion technologies is the fact that a host of very radioactive by-products are obtained as this type of reactions take place. Granted, physicists have yet to construct the large-scale reactors that could see atomic nuclei fused together to produce e... |
2 April 2010
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Global warming is believed to be a serious contributor to the frequency and intensity of hurricanes in the Northern Atlantic at this point, but pieces of evidence of this are not widely agreed upon. As a result, looking back into the planet's hurricane history could make it clear if the recent spike in the weath... |
22 October 2009
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Earth, like all planets in the solar system, has an inner most core, in the shape of a sphere measuring about 1,200 kilometers, consisting of a solid mass of iron, responsible for generating our planet's powerful magnetic field. Nonetheless, while implying measurements of its structure with the help of seismic w... |
8 February 2008
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