Search query: causes

Categories: All Categories


13142 records searched, 2988 records found, 20 matches displayed

< Previous 20 articles        Next 20 articles >


Search Hints:

  • Use a + (plus sign) or - (minus sign) to include or exclude a word: +mars -venus
  • Use a ? (question mark) as a wildcard for a single letter: te?t (test,text)
  • Use a * (asterisk) as a wildcard for multiple letters: he*t (heat, heart)
  • Use a ~ (tilde) to expand word endings: meteor~ (meteorite, meteorid, meteorology)


Most frequent words for articles published in the last 45 days:
developed (95), climate (85), team (83), species (75), cells (74), used (72), human (64), help (61), change (60), water (60), years (60), data (57), energy (55), such (53), carbon (51), discovered (50), time (48), like (47), materials (46), even (44)


Return to the site home page

Environmental: Wildfires Geoscience: Environmental Issues Geoscience: Landslides
Published

What causes mudslides and floods after wildfires? Hint: It's not what scientists thought      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Scientists once assumed that flooding and mudslides after wildfires were linked to the waxy coating...

Environmental: General Environmental: Water Geoscience: Environmental Issues Geoscience: Geography Geoscience: Landslides
Published

Land under water: What causes extreme flooding?      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

If rivers overflow their banks, the consequences can be devastating -- just like the catastrophic fl...

Environmental: General Environmental: Water Geoscience: Earth Science Geoscience: Environmental Issues Geoscience: Severe Weather
Published

Air pollution hides increases in rainfall      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

In a new study, researchers broke down how human-induced greenhouse gas and aerosol emissions influe...

Environmental: General Environmental: Water Geoscience: Environmental Issues
Published

Targeted home systems to remove PFAS more cost-effective than system-wide solutions      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

PFAS, the potentially cancer-causing chemicals known as 'forever chemicals', have become an increasi ...

Geoscience: Earth Science Geoscience: Earthquakes Geoscience: Geography
Published

Do earthquake hazard maps predict higher shaking than actually occurred?      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

A research team studied earthquake hazard maps from five countries and found that all the maps seeme...

Geoscience: Earth Science Geoscience: Earthquakes Geoscience: Volcanoes
Published

Highly sensitive fiber optic gyroscope senses rotational ground motion around active volcano      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Researchers have built a prototype fiber optic gyroscope for high resolution, real-time monitoring o...

Geoscience: Earthquakes Geoscience: Environmental Issues
Published

Safeguarding urban infrastructure from subsidence and liquefaction risks      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

During an earthquake, soil can weaken through subsidence and liquefaction. These processes can cause ...

Environmental: Water Geoscience: Earth Science Geoscience: Earthquakes Geoscience: Geography
Published

An earthquake changed the course of the Ganges: Could it happen again?      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

A major earthquake 2,500 years ago caused one of the largest rivers on Earth to abruptly change cour ...

Offbeat: General Offbeat: Space Space: Astronomy Space: Exploration Space: General Space: Structures and Features
Published

Mysterious gap in size distribution of super-earths explained      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Astronomers have uncovered evidence of how the enigmatic gap in the size distribution of exoplanets...

Energy: Batteries Energy: Technology Physics: Acoustics and Ultrasound
Published

Sound-powered sensors stand to save millions of batteries      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Researchers are developing a new type of sensor that reacts to certain sound waves, causing it to vi ...

Engineering: Nanotechnology Physics: General Physics: Optics Physics: Quantum Computing Physics: Quantum Physics
Published

Stacked up against the rest      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Scientists have hypothesized that moir excitons -- electron-hole pairs confined in moir interference...

Biology: Biochemistry Biology: Cell Biology Biology: General Biology: Genetics Biology: Molecular Chemistry: Biochemistry Physics: Optics
Published

Immune system in the spotlight      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Our immune system is always on alert, detecting and eliminating pathogens and cancer cells. Cellular...