Imperial Valley News Center
Shallow fracking raises questions for water
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- Written by Rob Jordan
Stanford, California - The United States now produces about as much crude oil as Saudi Arabia does, and enough natural gas to export in large quantities. That's thanks to hydraulic fracturing, a mining practice that involves a rock-cracking pressurized mix of water, sand and chemicals.
Stanford economist proposes fourth branch of government to counter corruption
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- Written by Christina Dong
Stanford, California - One way to end the problem of political corruption in Washington, D.C., is to establish a new branch of government that serves as an "umpire" against cronyism, a Stanford economist suggests.
Déjà-vu, new theory says dark matter acts like well-known particle
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- Written by Motoko Kakubayashi
Berkeley, California - A new theory says dark matter acts remarkably similar to subatomic particles known to science since the 1930s.
Genome analysis pinpoints arrival and spread of first Americans
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- Written by Robert Sanders
Berkeley, California - he original Americans came from Siberia in a single wave no more than 23,000 years ago, at the height of the last Ice Age, and apparently hung out in the north - perhaps for thousands of years - before spreading in two distinct populations throughout North and South America, according to a new genomic analysis.
Driving desire
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- Written by John Grimaldi
Imperial, California - Retirement is out of the question for 95-year old Laura Thomas, a driving instructor who has been plying her trade for nearly eight decades, reports the Association of Mature American Citizens.
Object recognition for robots
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- Written by Larry Hardesty
Cambridge, Massachusetts - John Leonard’s group in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering specializes in SLAM, or simultaneous localization and mapping, the technique whereby mobile autonomous robots map their environments and determine their locations.
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