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Caltech scientists develop DNA origami nanoscale breadboards for carbon nanotube circuits
A paper about the work appeared November 8 in the early online edition of Nature Nanotechnology."This project is one of those great 'Where else but at Caltech?' stories," s...
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Read moreDeep creep means milder, more frequent earthquakes along Southern California's San Jacinto fault
"Those minor to moderate events along the San Jacinto fault relieve some of the stress built by the constantly moving tectonic plates," said Shimon Wdowinski, research associate professor at...
Earth Sciences | Read moreAfrican Desert Rift Confirmed as New Ocean in the Making
In 2005, a gigantic, 35-mile-long rift broke open the desert ground in Ethiopia. At the time, some geologists believed the rift was the beginning of a new ocean as two parts of the African continent p...
Earth Sciences | Read moreFirst complete image created of Himalayan fault, subduction zone
Their findings, published this week in the journal Science, help explain the formation of the world's largest mountain range, which is still growing.The researchers discovered that as the...
Earth Sciences | Read moreWater in mantle may be associated with subduction
What is most notable, the scientists say, is those areas of high conductivity coincide with subduction zones – where tectonic plates are being subducted beneath the Earth's crust. Subducting plat...
Earth Sciences | Read moreShaking the Earth: Just add water
New Zealand is the site of one of the world's youngest subduction zones, where the Pacific Plate of Earth's crust dives beneath the Australian Plate. Now, a University of Utah study shows ho...
Earth Sciences | Read moreJade sheds light on Guatemala's geologic history
A new analysis of jade found along the Motagua fault that bisects Guatemala is underscoring the fact that this region has a more complex geologic history than previously thought. Because jade ...
Earth Sciences | Read moreNatural deep earth pump fuels earthquakes and ore
The process, called creep cavitation, involves fluid being pumped through pores in deformed rock in mid-crustal sheer zones, which are approximately 15 km below the Earth's surface.The fl...
Earth Sciences | Read moreNew study closes in on geologic history of Earth's deep interior
By using a super-computer to virtually squeeze and heat iron-bearing minerals under conditions that would have existed when the Earth crystallized from an ocean of magma to its solid form 4.5 billion ...
Earth Sciences | Read moreNew Definition Could Further Limit Habitable Zones Around Distant Suns
As astronomers gaze toward nearby planetary systems in search of life, they are focusing their attention on each system's habitable zone, where heat radiated from the star is just right to keep a...
Physics and Astronomy | Read moreHybrid Remotely Operated Vehicle “Nereus” Reaches Deepest Part of the Ocean
The dive makes Nereus the world’s deepest-diving vehicle and the first vehicle to explore the Mariana Trench since 1998. Nereus’s unique hybrid-vehicle design makes it ideally suited to explor...
Earth Sciences | Read moreFingerprinting slow earthquakes
Now a team of researchers, led by Teh-Ru Alex Song of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, has found that an anomalous layer at the top of a subducting plate coincides ...
Earth Sciences | Read moreCSI: Pisco, Peru
A magnitude 8.0. earthquake destroyed 90 percent of the city of Pisco, Peru on August 16, 2007. The event killed 595 people, while another 318 were missing. Tsunami waves were observed locally, off th...
Earth Sciences | Read moreSolomon Islands earthquake sheds light on enhanced tsunami risk
On April 1, 2007, a tsunami-generating earthquake of magnitude 8.1 occurred East of Papua New Guinea off the coast of the Solomon Islands. The subsequent tsunami killed about 52 people, destroyed much...
Earth Sciences | Read moreBent tectonics: How Hawaii was bumped off
A sharp bend in the middle is the only blemish. The long-standing explanation for this distinctive feature was a change in direction of the Pacific oceanic plate in its migration over a stationary hot...
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