Imperial Valley News Center
The winds of Titan
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- Written by Andy Fell
Davis, California - As sand dunes march across the Sahara, vast dunes cross the surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. New research from a refurbished NASA wind tunnel reveals the physics of how particles move in Titan's methane-laden winds and could help to explain why Titan's dunes form in the way they do.
Plant breeding academy graduates to improve Africa’s ‘orphan’ crops
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- Written by Pat Bailey
Davis, California - The African Plant Breeding Academy, run by the University of California, Davis, in collaboration with Mars Incorporated and their global partners, today graduated its first class of plant breeders in Nairobi, Kenya.
Cloudy water, even if it’s safe, affects rural immigrants’ health
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- Written by Karen Nikos-Rose
Davis, California - Cloudy tap water may have a greater effect for California’s rural immigrants than merely leaving behind a bad taste, according to a new policy brief released by the Center for Poverty Research at the University of California, Davis.
Stanford faculty awarded seed grants for innovative energy research
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- Written by Mark Shwartz and Mark Golden
Stanford, California - Stanford University's Precourt Institute for Energy, Precourt Energy Efficiency Center and TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy have awarded eight seed grants totaling about $1.5 million for promising new research in clean technology and energy efficiency.
Grand jury system flawed in Ferguson case but still valuable for investigations
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- Written by Clifton B. Parker
Stanford, California - A special prosecutor leading the grand jury may have been a better approach in the Ferguson police-civilian death case, a Stanford law professor says.
Cultural history of four-hand piano playing
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- Written by Nate Sloan
Stanford, California - In 19th-century Europe - long before LPs, CDs or mp3s - there were only two ways to listen to, say, the latest Beethoven symphony: either you were lucky enough to hear it performed at the local concert hall, or you played it at home yourself.
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