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Rising Tides Intensify Non-volcanic Tremor In Earth's Crust
For more than a decade geoscientists have detected what amount to ultra-slow-motion earthquakes under Western Washington and British Columbia on a regular basis, about every 14 months. Such episodic tremor-and-slip events typically last two to three weeks and can release as much energy as a large earthquake, though they are not felt and cause no damage.Researchers find evidence that slow-slip events, essentially ultra-slow-motion earthquakes, are affected by the rise and fall of ocean tides. Lakes Beneath Antarctic Ice Sheets Found To Initiate And Sustain Flow
One of the planet's most remote and little-understood features may play a crucial role in transporting ice from the remote interior of Antarctica towards the surrounding ocean, according to a new research. How green is your house?
Seventy percent of U.K. households always separate their rubbish for recycling, but only 2 percent buy their energy on a green tariff, according to the early findings of a major new annual household survey. College Textbooks: Enhanced Offerings Appear to Drive Recent Price Inc
This 2005 government report considers changes in college textbook prices and what factors have contributed to these changes (such as CD-ROMs and other instructional supplements). The report notes that "in the last two decades, college textbook prices have increased at twice the rate of inflation but have followed close behind tuition increases."Includes a summary and the full text, with diagrams and charts. From the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Sampling 'Small Atmospheres' In The Tiny New Worlds Of MEMS
Just as astronomers want to understand the atmospheres of planets and moons, so engineers want atmospheric knowledge of worlds they create that are the size of pinheads, their "skies"capped by tiny glass bubbles. The most advanced sampling procedure known -- requiring only picoliters of gas to evaluate the contents of these small atmospheres -- is now in place at Sandia National Laboratories, a National Nuclear Security Administration facility. Diabetics Experience More Complications Following Trauma
Individuals with diabetes appear to spend more days in the intensive care unit, use more ventilator support and have more complications during hospitalization for trauma than non-diabetics, according to a report in the July issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Diabetics Most At Risk From Neglected Post Meal Sugar Peak
Christmas time is full of food when most of us simply have to worry about our expanding waist lines but new research says that people with diabetes need to pay attention to the dangers of a neglected post meal peak in blood glucose. Indeed the research shows that this post meal peak can do even more damage than a more sustained rise in blood sugar. Until recently, the main focus of therapy for people with diabetes has been on lowering blood sugar or glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) levels, with a strong emphasis on fasting plasma glucose. One-third Of US Adults Call For Completely Rebuilding Health Care Syst
At a time when the US spends more than double what other countries spend for medical care -- $6,697 per capita in 2005 -- a new Commonwealth Fund seven-nation survey finds that US patients are more likely to report experiencing medical errors, to go without care because of costs, and to say that the health care system needs to be rebuilt completely. Speak, Memory: Research Challenges Theory Of Memory Storage
During sleep, freshly minted memories move from the hippocampus, part of the "old"brain, to the neocortex, or "new"brain, for long-term storage. This has been the reigning theory for decades. Brown University research provides the strongest proof yet of this interaction between the old and new brains -- and offers surprising evidence that challenges critical details of this theory of learning and memory. Results appear in Nature Neuroscience. Cultural evolution in the lab
Adding a little culture to the chemical laboratory could help chemists find structures much faster than before. According to UK chemists, Samantha Chong and Maryjane Tremayne, of the University of Birmingham, combining the principles of social and biological evolution with a little fashion sense to make a new Cultural Differential Evolution algorithm allowed them to [...]
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