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Pro, anti-telescope arguments aim to sway Hawaii land board
HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii's land board is hearing arguments for and against building a giant telescope on a mountain some consider sacred.Wednesday's hearing in a Hilo hotel comes after the retired judge overseeing contested-case hearings for the Thirty Meter Telescope recommended granting the project a construction permit. Riki May Amano issued her recommendation in July after hearing testimony that spanned 44 days.
Opponents and supporters are echoing much of the arguments made during those oftentimes emotional days of testimony.
Telescope attorney... Read More
Nevada quake lab tests new bridge design after Mexico quake
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Scientists at a Nevada earthquake lab on Wednesday tested new bridge designs with connectors they say are innovative and created to better withstand violent temblors and speed reconstruction efforts after major quake damage.University of Nevada, Reno engineers performed the experiments on a giant "shake table" to simulate violent motions of an earthquake to rattle a 100-ton (91-metric ton), 70 foot (21-meter) bridge model to determine how well it would hold up.
The tests, conducted a day after a big quake struck Mexico, shook large concrete... Read More
New fight in California water wars: How to update old system
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — In California's long-raging water wars, pitting north against south and farmer against city dweller, the one thing everybody agreed on Wednesday was that the outdated method of shipping water throughout the most populous state needs a serious upgrade.A group of influential California farmers shook up the debate a day earlier, backing out of Gov. Jerry Brown's $16 billion plan to build two massive water tunnels, re-engineering the delivery system. Westlands Water District in Fresno said it was too expensive and came with too few guarantees.
Soft soil makes Mexico City shake like it was built on jelly
WASHINGTON (AP) — The soft soil that lines the ancient lake bed that Mexico City is built on amplified the shaking from Tuesday's earthquake and increased its destructive force, seismologists say as they try to better understand the quake that has killed more than 200 people.Scientists are looking at other quirks of the magnitude 7.1 earthquake, including the absence of aftershocks and if it is somehow related to a distant, even stronger, Mexican temblor that struck a dozen days earlier.
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Mexico City is built on deep, soft soil that was once... Read More
Huge sea turtles slowly coming back from brink of extinction
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sea turtles are lumbering back from the brink of extinction, a new study says.Scientists found more populations of the large turtles improving than declining when they looked at nearly 60 regions across the globe. That's a big change from a decade or two ago, experts said.
Long-living sea turtles have been pushed to endangered levels by hunting, accidentally being caught in fishing nets, habitat loss, plastics pollution and climate change, experts say.
But massive efforts to save the egg-laying turtles by changing fishing nets and... Read More
Top Stories in Science
- Pro, anti-telescope arguments aim to sway Hawaii land board
- Nevada quake lab tests new bridge design after Mexico quake
- New fight in California water wars: How to update old system
- Soft soil makes Mexico City shake like it was built on jelly
- Governors, John Kerry promote 15-state Climate Alliance
- Huge sea turtles slowly coming back from brink of extinction
- Ex-Mountie headed to US prison for smuggling narwhal tusks
- Puerto Rican astronaut gets double dose of hurricanes
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