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Satellite data look behind the scenes of deadly earthquake
“One of the very fundamental issues for understanding an earthquake is to know how the rupture is distributed on the fault plane, which is directly related to…
New laryngoscope could make difficult intubations easier
About 2 percent of patients that undergo the process, called intubation, experience complications – regardless if it's performed in an emergency situation or…
Quantum computer chips now 1 step closer to reality
The problem: the manufacturing techniques required to make quantum devices have been equally exotic.That is, until now.Researchers at Ohio State University…
Skin cells may provide early warning for cancer risk elsewhere in body
While some scientists have argued that cancer is such a complex genetic disease that you'd have to sequence a person's complete genome in order to predict his…
Study: Managers' hiring practices vary by race, ethnicity
Using more than two years of personnel data from a large U.S. retail chain, the study found that when a black manager in a typical store is replaced by a…
Fruit fly pest identified in wine grapes
Since the tiny fly, Drosophila suzukii, was first confirmed in Oregon less than two months ago, there have been an increasing number of reports of its…
