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9 matches found for "Rupture Resistance"

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Aphids Saved From Gruesome Death by Virus-Infected Bacteria

But for pea aphids under attack by parasitic wasps, carrying infected bacteria is the difference between life and a slow death, according to new research from The University of Arizona in Tucson. ...

Life Sciences |

Flue gas coolers with AlWaFlon® pressure hoses based on DuPont Teflon® PTFE maximize power plant efficiency

Upon completion at the end of 2010, it will be one of the country’s most productive and efficient lignite-fired plants with an efficiency rating of around 42 percent, and one of the world’s most moder...

Materials Sciences |

Describing Soils: Calibration Tool for Teaching Soil Rupture Resistance

A new calibration tool was recently developed to help students and soil scientists calibrate their thumb and forefinger for the correct amount of pressure.C.A. Seybold and colleagues, USDA-NRC...

Earth Sciences |

Geologists study China earthquake for glimpse into future

Around the world, earthquakes like the one in China are associated with triggered aftershocks that are very large. In 1999, a 7.1 earthquake in Duzce, Turkey, followed a 7.4 magnitude earthquake in Iz...

Earth Sciences |

New potential drug target for the treatment of atherosclerosis

Their findings, reported in this week’s online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, offer a new and specific target for the development of drugs that specifically treat card...

Health and Medicine |

Why juniper trees can live on less water

"The take-home message is that junipers are the most drought-resistant group that has ever been studied," said Robert Jackson, a professor of global environmental change and biology at Duke&...

Life Sciences |

Sediment could be a major factor in biggest subduction zone earthquakes

The most powerful earthquakes – such as those that shook Indonesia in 2004, Alaska in 1964, Chile in 1960 and the Pacific Northwest in 1700 – occur in subduction zones, areas of the sea ...

Earth Sciences |

During earthquakes, mineral gel may reduce rock friction to zero

Researchers have discovered a mineral gel created when rocks abrade each other under earthquake-like conditions. If present in faults during a quake, the gel may reduce friction to nearly zero ...

Earth Sciences |

Type 1 diabetics can get ’double diabetes’ from insulin resistance, says University of Pittsburgh

Insulin resistance, a condition commonly associated with the development of type 2 diabetes, is likely a major cause of heart disease in people with type 1 diabetes, according to study resul...

Health and Medicine |

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