Double-whammy tsunami?
On 11 March 2011, a magnitude-9 earthquake jolted northern Japan and sent a devastating tsunami sweeping down the coast, overwhelming seawalls with a surge more than 10 meters high. Along one 100-kilometer stretch of...
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Ig Nobel prizes provide fun fodder
In honour of the winners of this year’s Ig Nobel Prizes, researchers on social media buzzed about holy images on toast, medical uses for bacon, the slipperiness of banana skins and other offbeat works...
Scientific misconduct: Research integrity guidelines in Japan : Nature
It is to be hoped that Japan’s new guidelines for research integrity, released recently by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), will curb research misconduct (see T. Tanimoto et al....
Prevalence of viscoelastic relaxation after the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake : Nature
After a large subduction earthquake, crustal deformation continues to occur, with a complex pattern of evolution. This postseismic deformation is due primarily to viscoelastic relaxation of stresses induced by the earthquake rupture and continuing...
Researchers seek to plug into discarded fish bones to generate electricity
SHIOGAMA, Miyagi Prefecture–Researchers in this seaside city are conducting experiments to generate electricity from fish bones discarded by local seafood processing plants. Source: ajw.asahi.com See on Scoop.it – Dernières nouvelles