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Surprising Findings about Japan’s 9.0 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Rashid Faridi

Magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake and resulting tsunami struck off the northeast coast of Japan on March 11  caused widespread destruction and death. Using observations from a dense regional geodetic network (allowing measurements of earth movement to be gathered from GPS … Continue reading →

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Indian Scientists at Hyderabad and AMU Deny the Existence of Higgs Boson

Posted on May 3, 2011 by Rashid Faridi

Indian scientists, B. G. Sidharth, Director of the B. M. Birla Science Centre at Hyderabad, and Syed Afsar Abbas, Professor at the Physics Department of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), have denied the possibility of existence of Higgs boson, also known … Continue reading →

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Urban Sprawl is Finished:Rising Oil Prices Will Turn Suburbs into Remote Slums

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Rashid Faridi

Many predict oil prices to start rising in just a few years. Even the US military says that we could start seeing massive shortages of oil as soon as 2015. Such shortages would not only effect the products we buy … Continue reading →

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Is Pluto a Comet with a Poisonous Atmosphere?

Posted on April 22, 2011 by Rashid Faridi

Pluto may no longer have official planetary status, but the dwarf planet does have an atmosphere. In fact, it’s the onlydwarf planet with a known atmosphere. What’s more, it has just been announced that its atmosphere reaches nearly one quarter of the … Continue reading →

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