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January 07, 2015

Years-long 'silent quake' unleashed Fukushima tsunami
Paris (AFP) Jan 6, 2015
The earthquake that set off the tsunami which caused the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster was unleashed by a stealthy nine-year buildup of pressure on a plate boundary, scientists said Tuesday. Part of a fault where two mighty plates on the Earth's crust collide east of Japan was being quietly crushed and twisted for nearly a decade, they said. It was this hard to detect activity which caused the fault eventually to rip open on March 11, 2011 and cause the catastrophe. The deformation "incre ... read more

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'Flying carpet' uses graphene to deliver one-two punch An international team of researchers has developed a drug delivery technique that utilizes graphene strips as "flying carpets" to deliver two anticancer drugs sequentially to cancer cells, with each ... more		Drought led to massive 'dead zone' in Lake Erie Lake Erie just can't catch a break. The lake has experienced harmful algal blooms and severe oxygen-depleted "dead zones" for years, but now a team of researchers led by Carnegie's Anna Michalak and ... more		Travel chaos as heavy snow hits Turkey Heavy snowfall descended on large parts of Turkey on Tuesday, snarling road and air traffic and leading to closures of schools, reports said. ... more
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