Word: seismicity
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...familiar stripes can be seen through them. Astronomer Heidi Hammel of M.I.T. says the collisions will provide an opportunity to study the winds above Jupiter's cloud tops. "The mark left by the first impact is already starting to be spread around," she observes. There are also hints of seismic waves -- ripples thatmay have traveled all the way to a dense layer of liquid hydrogen thousands of miles down and then bounced back up to the surface, creating rings half the size of the planet's visible face. These waves may offer clues to Jupiter's internal structure...
When the sun set, veterans said it was hard to believe they were in a World Cup town. The center held. The faithful said it felt weird being somewhere that didn't skip a beat for such a seismic affair. Phil Hersh, who writes for the daily Chicago Tribune and is extraordinarily fond of soccer, told his readers he wished the World Cup weren't happening here. "I want the World Cup in a country where cheers come from restaurant kitchens when the home team scores," he wrote...
Indeed, what seems most significant about all the new therapies, what joins them together, is not their power, for this has yet to be proved. Rather, it is the seismic shift in strategy they collectively represent. Increasingly, researchers speak not of slaughtering the cancer cell but of tricking it into dying naturally, perhaps of old age, as other cells do. They also talk of reining in the cancer cell, even rehabilitating it, a task that demands the development of less toxic drugs that can be tolerated over a lifetime. The model for cancer therapy of the future already exists. "After...
...might not be all that bad for other cities. Asks Fishman: Could it be that by tearing down so much the Northridge earthquake has dealt Los Angeles the shock therapy it needs? That somehow the blow will compel the city to develop in ways that take account of the seismic dangers lurking beneath...
...been a fold, or buckling, in the earth's crust. Many scientists had thought such folds were harmless, formed by an imperceptibly gradual lifting of the ground. But when Ross Stein, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey, and geologist Robert Yeats of Oregon State University examined the seismic record of fold belts all around the world, they uncovered a different story. Folds, they warned, also grow through repeated earthquakes...