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National Parliament Principality of Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein [1100x825]

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Motion in the ocean

Plate Tectonics and earthquake hazard assessment has benefited hugely from the existence of GPS technology. Thanks to the global GPS network, scientists can put receivers on different sides of a fault, measure how rapidly plates are moving far from the fault, and locate areas on the fault that aren’t slipping along. These areas of the fault that aren’t moving with the surrounding plate are technically called “slip-deficit regions” – they’re the part of the fault that is locked, building up stress that will at some point be released as a sudden slip in an earthquake.

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GLOW-IN-THE-DARK CEMENT COULD TOTALLY CHANGE HOW WE LIGHT CITIES

After nine years of research, Dr. José Carlos Rubio has overcome this hurdle and figured out a way of altering the micro-structure of cement itself, eliminating the opaque crystalline byproducts of the normal production process that blocked phosphorescence.

When fully charged by exposure to light, Rubio’s cement can glow for up to 12 hours, and should retain this ability for about a century.

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Azi se împlinesc 50 de ani de la moartea lui bunicul meu, Traian Chelariu.

While I never knew my grandfather when he was alive, I know him through family stories and his mark on Romanian history as a poet and scholar. Today is the 50th anniversary of his passing.