Boise State University geophysics researchers have created a new way to study fractures by producing elastic waves, or vibrations, through using high-intensity light focused directly on the fracture itself. The new technique developed in the Physical Acoustics Lab at Boise State may help determine if there is a fluid, such as magma or water, or […]
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New way to study ground fractures
August 9th, 2014 
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No Comments »Mammoth and mastodon behavior was less roam
August 6th, 2014 Riffin Their scruffy beards weren’t ironic, but there are reasons mammoths and mastodons could have been the hipsters of the Ice Age. According to research from the University of Cincinnati, the famously fuzzy relatives of elephants liked living in Greater Cincinnati long before it was trendy – at the end of the last ice age. A […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Mammoth, mastodon, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Giant earthquakes help predict volcanic eruptions
August 4th, 2014 Riffin Researchers at the Institut des Sciences de la Terre (CNRS/Université Joseph Fourier/Université de Savoie/IRD/IFSTTAR) and the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (CNRS/Université Paris Diderot/IPGP), working in collaboration with Japanese researchers, have for the first time observed the response of Japanese volcanoes to seismic waves produced by the giant Tohoku-oki earthquake of 2011. Their […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: earthquakes, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, volcanic, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Oldest land-living animal from Gondwana found ?
August 3rd, 2014 Riffin A postdoctoral fellow from Wits University has discovered the oldest known land-living animal from Gondwana in a remote part of the Eastern Cape. Dr Robert Gess, from the Evolutionary Studies Institute at Wits, discovered the 350-million-year-old fossilised scorpion from rocks of the Devonian Witteberg Group near Grahamstown. This unique specimen, which is a new species, […]
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August 1st, 2014 Riffin An international team of scientists from Spain, France, and the U.S. has discovered and described a rove beetle that is the oldest definitive member of the tribe Omaliini that has ever been found in amber. The discovery and description were made possible through the use of the propagation phase-contrast X-ray synchrotron imaging technique, which allows […]
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