A team of Spanish and Argentinean researchers have verified that the distribution of the inhabitants in each Spanish province evolves in accordance with the maximum entropy principle in the field of physics. Therefore, this ...
Mathematics
Mar 11, 2013
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Scientists have developed a new method to model heat wave magnitude that takes both the duration and the intensity of the heat wave into account.
Environment
Nov 26, 2015
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Solar eclipses don't just turn the lights out; they also make the wind slow down and change direction.
Earth Sciences
Mar 29, 2012
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A recent study has investigated around 100,000 localized seismic events to search for patterns in the data. University of Tokyo Professor Satoshi Ide discovered that earthquakes of differing magnitudes have more in common ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 4, 2019
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The U.S. Geological Survey says a second earthquake has hit China.
Environment
May 21, 2021
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In 2011 a powerful drought gripped East Africa. The failure of both the 2010 fall rains and the 2011 spring rains caused a drought that, stacked on an already unstable political climate, caused a famine that led to hundreds ...
Environment
Mar 15, 2013
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Symbols don't always have to be part of the equation to understand math, according to cognitive neuroscientist Elizabeth Brannon.
Plants & Animals
Apr 28, 2016
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TU Delft has carried out research into geological fault lines in the Netherlands, using new satellite techniques. The movement that has been identified in this way is not caused by shifting tectonic plates, however, but is ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 5, 2012
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(Phys.org) —A team of geology researchers working in France has for the first time recreated the conditions in a lab that lead to a phenomenon known as a supershear earthquake. In their paper published in the journal Science, ...
The magnitude of the Great Lisbon Earthquake event, a historic and devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Portugal on All Saints' Day in 1755, may not be as high as previously estimated.
Earth Sciences
Jan 7, 2020
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