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Amadeus and Esmeraldas: two marine geophysics campaigns to investigate strong earthquakes off Ecuador and Colombia
Several large earthquakes with magnitude higher than 8 on the Richter scale have already occurred along the margins between the Nazca and South American tectonic plates, under the ocean off Ecuador and Colombia. This region is vulnerable, all the more so because since the 1980s, Ecuador's oil... view more (2005-02-16)

Chinese earthquake provides lessons for future
The May 12 Sichuan earthquake in China was unexpectedly large. Analysis of the area, however, now shows that topographic characteristics of the highly mountainous area identified the mountain range as active and could have pointed to the earthquake hazard. Topographic analysis can help evaluate... view more (2008-07-22)

The lung of the fuel cell
However environment-friendly fuel cells may be, like any other energy source their success on the market depends not only on their area of application but also, more particularly, on their price. A number of technological hurdles will have to be overcome before the various systems can be... view more (2003-04-04)

Seismologists measure heat flow from Earth's molten core into the lower mantle
For the first time, scientists have directly measured the amount of heat flowing from the molten metal of Earth's core into a region at the base of the mantle, a process that helps drive both the movement of tectonic plates at the surface and the geodynamo in the core that generates Earth's... view more (2006-11-27)

Sediment layer may forecast greatest earthquakes
Researchers at Yale and the University of Washington report that great earthquakes, like the 2004 Sumatra earthquake, may be caused by the build up of sediment on top of subduction zones, suggesting a new way to forecast these most severe earthquakes.   view more (2006-01-31)

Deep faults and disrupted crater at Acheron Fossae
These images were taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express of the Acheron Fossae region, an area of intensive tectonic (continental 'plate') activity in the past. The images show traces of enormous stress and corresponding strain in the crust of the Red... view more (2004-05-07)

3-D computer models aid research of Earth's core
The work of a University of Alaska Fairbanks post-doctoral fellow will be included in an article appearing in the upcoming issue of the journal, Science.   view more (2006-11-29)

New Hebrew University frictional motion study could provide tool for earthquake prediction
A new study on "waves (or fronts) of detachment" involved in the process of friction offers a new perspective on an old scientific puzzle and could provide a key to improving predictions of future earthquakes, say scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.   view more (2004-09-26)

Traffic cameras fail eye test
EMBARGOED UNTIL WEDNESDAY 14 AUGUST 2002 19:00 BST UK CONTACT - Claire Bowles, New Scientist Press Office, London: Tel: +44(0)20 7331 2751 or email claire.bowles@rbi.co.uk By Barry Fox A CONTROVERSIAL automated traffic charging system being introduced to London could be a lot easier to cheat than... view more (2002-08-14)

Tunguska - making an impact @ the London `Catastrophes` conference
The "Tunguska Event" refers to the tremendous explosion on the morning of June 30, 1908, that laid waste to about 2150 square kilometres of Siberia in the region to the north and north-west of Lake Baikal in Russia. The event is widely attributed to be the impact of a comet or asteroid.   view more (2002-08-17)

Mechanical engineering helps research into the liver
Artificial glass livers being developed at the University of Leeds could help those suffering from liver failure, and improve understanding of how the organ works, researchers believe. Dr Peter Walker of mechanical engineering is leading Leeds' contribution to a three-year £320,000 project... view more (2004-01-26)

Fitness in a Changing World
The stickleback fish, Gasterosteus aculeatus, is one of the most thoroughly studied organisms in the wild, and has been a particularly useful model for understanding variation in physiology, behavior, life history and morphology caused by different ecological situations in the wild.   view more (2008-10-13)

What makes Mars magnetic?
Earth's surface is a very active place; its plates are forever jiggling around, rearranging themselves into new configurations. Continents collide and mountains arise, oceans slide beneath continents and volcanoes spew.   view more (2007-08-13)

Economists Find Just how Much People Value The Status of Personalised Car Number Plates
Status matters a lot to human beings. Economists have long understood this, but have found it almost impossible to research and understand how much we value things that we believe give us status but seem to have little other use. Most economics textbooks simply ignore concerns about status, but now... view more (2002-08-06)

Technologists develop robust soot filter for diesel engine
In a Technology Foundation STW project, Coen van Gulijk has developed a new concept for a robust soot filter for diesel engines. As well as filter stages, the filter has an open canal so as to exclude the danger of blockage and thus fire. The new soot filter consists of series of perforated ceramic... view more (2002-09-11)

Mineral ages show Blue Mountain rocks related to Klamath, Sierra Nevadas
New evidence, based on mineral dating, suggests that rocks of the Blue Mountains, the oldest geological formation in Oregon, may have been derived from the Klamath and Sierra Nevada mountain chains, University of Oregon researchers report.   view more (2007-10-30)

Discovery sheds new light on cause of earthquakes
Research at the University of Liverpool into a large fault zone in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile has produced new insight into how fluid pressure can cause earthquakes.   view more (2006-12-14)

Dinosaurs in bullet-proof vests
Some dinosaurs possessed a hard bony armoured shell similar to today's crocodiles or tortoises - presumably to protect themselves from enemies. The structure of some kinds of this armour seems to be far more complex than was hitherto assumed. Palaeontologists of the University of Bonn were able to... view more (2004-11-15)

Sumatra megaquake defied theory
The risks of Sumatra-style mega-quakes around the world have been sorely misjudged, say earth scientists who are re-examining some of the pre-December 2004 assumptions scientists made about such rare events.   view more (2006-03-28)

2006 tectonic plate motion reversal near Acapulco puzzles earthquake scientists
A reversal of tectonic plate motion between Acapulco and Mexico City in the last half of 2006 probably didn't ease seismic strain in the region or the specter of a major earthquake anticipated there in the coming decades, says a University of Colorado at Boulder professor.   view more (2007-08-03)

Seismologists detect a sunken slab of ocean floor deep in the Earth
Halfway to the center of the Earth, at the boundary between the core and the mantle, lies a massive folded slab of rock that once formed the ocean floor and sank beneath North America some 50 million years ago.   view more (2006-05-18)

Glass sensors measure weathering effects
The corrosiveness of a specific atmosphere can be established in a few weeks by thin slices of special glass. The sensors are capable of monitoring the outdoor environment as well as indoors, for instance in sensitive production processes such as chip fabrication.   view more (2004-10-04)

Study of 2004 tsunami forces rethinking of giant earthquake theory
The Sumatra-Andaman earthquake of Dec. 26, 2004, was one of the worst natural disasters in history, largely because of the devastating tsunami that followed.   view more (2006-03-06)

Fragmented Structure of Seafloor Faults May Dampen Effects of Earthquakes
Many earthquakes in the deep ocean are much smaller in magnitude than expected. Geophysicists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have found new evidence that the fragmented structure of seafloor faults, along with previously unrecognized volcanic activity, may be dampening the... view more (2007-07-13)

Geologists recover rocks yielding unprecedented insights into San Andreas Fault
For the first time, geologists have extracted intact rock samples from 2 miles beneath the surface of the San Andreas Fault, the infamous rupture that runs 800 miles along the length of California.   view more (2007-10-05)
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