Saving on oil well costs using everyday nails
Ordinary nails can reinforce oil wells. There's no quicker or cheaper way.
Environment
Mar 13, 2015
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Passive Facebook use undermines how a person feels
Using Facebook only to scroll through your news feed or browse other people's profiles can have a negative impact on your well-being, says a University of Michigan researcher.
Social Sciences
Feb 25, 2015
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Draft U-M report analyzes policy options for hydraulic fracturing in Michigan
University of Michigan researchers today released a detailed draft analysis of policy options for hydraulic fracturing, the natural gas and oil extraction process commonly known as fracking.
Environment
Feb 20, 2015
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Crystal boundaries on metals can enhance, or reduce, hydrogen's damaging effects
When a metal tube lines an oil well thousands of feet below the surface of the ocean, that metal had better be solid and reliable. Unfortunately, the environment in such deep wells is often rich in hydrogen, a gas that can ...
Condensed Matter
Feb 5, 2015
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College students report more stress, less time to socialize
Today's high school seniors aren't partying and socializing as much as their parents' generation—they're too busy trying to get into college, and when they get there, some don't feel good about themselves, a new survey ...
Social Sciences
Feb 5, 2015
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Well-being programmes in schools might be doing children more harm than good
Apocryphal depictions of an unprecedented crisis in young people's mental ill-health and their general vulnerability have been accompanied by increasingly alarmist claims that only schools can address this social "ticking ...
Social Sciences
Jan 23, 2015
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Nano-beaker offers insight into the condensation of atoms
An international team of physicists has succeeded in mapping the condensation of individual atoms, or rather their transition from a gaseous state to another state, using a new method. Led by the Swiss Nanoscience Institute ...
Nanophysics
Jan 21, 2015
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Scientists look for what's causing Texas earthquakes
Swarms of small quakes rippled up from unknown faults beneath the soil. They rustled Cleburne, Azle and Irving. Fifteen recent earthquakes around the old Texas Stadium in Irving site included the strongest yet in Dallas County, ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 14, 2015
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New contaminants found in oil and gas wastewater
Duke University scientists have discovered high levels of two potentially hazardous contaminants, ammonium and iodide, in wastewater being discharged or spilled into streams and rivers from oil and gas operations in Pennsylvania ...
Environment
Jan 14, 2015
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Obama moves to create first methane limits for gas drilling (Update)
The Obama administration laid out designs Wednesday to issue the first regulations to cut down on methane emissions from new natural gas wells, aiming to curb the discharge of a potent greenhouse gas by roughly half.
Environment
Jan 14, 2015
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