Imperial Valley News Center
CT scan of Earth links deep mantle plumes with volcanic hotspots
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- Written by Robert Sanders
Berkeley, California - University of California, Berkeley, seismologists have produced for the first time a sharp, three-dimensional scan of Earth’s interior that conclusively connects plumes of hot rock rising through the mantle with surface hotspots that generate volcanic island chains like Hawaii, Samoa and Iceland.
Californians support stronger climate-change rules
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- Written by Kathleen Maclay
Berkeley, California - Californians support stronger efforts to fight climate change by requiring more electricity to come from renewable resources and cutting gasoline use in half, according to a new poll from UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS).
Upholding disarmament agreements with engineering
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- Written by Julia Sklar
Cambridge, Massachusetts - “Energy is incredibly fundamental to life,” MIT graduate student Ruaridh Macdonald says. “That’s why I keep studying it.”
Self-driving golf carts
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- Written by Larry Hardesty
Cambridge, Massachusetts - At the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in September, members of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) and their colleagues will describe an experiment conducted over six days at a large public garden in Singapore, in which self-driving golf carts ferried 500 tourists around winding paths trafficked by pedestrians, bicyclists, and the occasional monitor lizard.
Radioactive Contaminants Found in Coal Ash
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- Written by Tim Lucas
Durham, North Carolina - A new Duke University-led study has revealed the presence of radioactive contaminants in coal ash from all three major U.S. coal-producing basins.
New Technology Weeds Out Patients Who Don’t Need Heart Catheterizations
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- Written by Sarah Avery
Durham, North Carolina - Chest pain is a symptom of coronary artery disease, and patients are often sent to a cardiac catheterization lab either directly or after stress testing for an invasive procedure to detect blockages.
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