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6 天前 · Rachel Feltman, Allison Parshall, Alexa Lim. More Podcasts. View All Stories. Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining ...
2023年2月22日 · 6 min read. How to Engineer Buildings That Withstand Earthquakes. Though deadly quakes can’t be prevented, science does have some ways to protect buildings—and the people inside them. By Andrea...
2012年8月1日 · The Sciences. The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood. by David R. Montgomery. W. W. Norton, 2012 ($26.95) This thought-provoking book explores the interplay between science and ...
- Buried at Sea
- Fresh Or Salty
- Temptation to Tap
Records of fresh water being found offshore go as far back as the 1800s. Fishers off Florida have occasionally reported “boils” of water on the ocean's surface, which they assume leaked upward from below. In some cases, they sampled the water and it did not taste salty; fresh water is less dense than seawater, so it rises. In 1996, two years after ...
Figuring out how a specific reservoir formed—whether it is connected to aquifers on land and how extensive it may be—requires a lot of sensing. Drilling provides samples, but it is expensive and limited to isolated spots. What had been missing until our cruise on the R/V Langsethwas a relatively inexpensive, easy-to-use technique that could cover l...
Interest in finding offshore freshwater deposits has risen significantly in the past few years, notably in regions where freshwater supplies are scarce. Our best guess at how much is trapped within roughly 150 kilometers of seashores worldwide is about one million cubic kilometers. For reference, New York City consumes about 1.4 cubic kilometers a ...
2011年4月19日 · April 19, 2011. 9 min read. How Science Stopped BP's Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill. Remote imaging of the failed blowout preventer, stress testing various containment devices as well as other high-tech...
2020年1月6日 · The cause of mysterious pneumonia cases in the Chinese city of Wuhan remains unknown, health authorities in the city said Sunday, as the number of infected people rose to 59 from 44 on Friday ...
2010年11月1日 · Crowd Control: How We Avoid Mass Panic. In emergencies, people don't panic. In fact, they show a remarkable ability to organize themselves and support one another. September 11, 2001. In the Twin ...
