Ten years ago, on March 11 2011, a devastating earthquake occurred along part of a fault that scientists believe had not ruptured for more than a thousand years. The quake triggered a tsunami that caused more than 15,000 deaths in Japan, as well as a serious nuclear accident at a power plant in Fukushima.
A brief overview of the most important incidents with explosions and decomposition of ammonium nitrate (AN).
Ammonium nitrate is a solid crystalline substance, soluble in water. It is industrially produced using ammonia and nitric acid. Its main commercial use is as a fertilizer with high nitrogen content.
Respiratory protective equipment, like all PPEs, are distinguished in many different types, each with its own sub-categories and specific uses and effectiveness.
During the two world wars of the 20th century, submarines were essentially surface ships with the ability to sail underwater for short periods. Usually they used their underwater capabilities during the final approach
In May 2015, the Zika virus infiltrated Brazil (Higgs, 2016). Since then, autochthonous transmission of the virus has been confirmed in 19 other countries
Alternative medicine, by definition, is medicine that is not supported by good enough evidence to have earned it a place in mainstream medicine.
The recent 50th anniversary of Doctor Who makes it seem only fitting that we have a chat about time travel.
The application of scientific methods to examine the evidences gathered in order to solve queries, thereby helping the legal system to acknowledge the truth is known as forensic science.
Ideas of time travel have existed for centuries, but when Albert Einstein released his theory of special relativity, he laid the foundation for the theoretical possibility of time travel.
In preparing to write my novel Tsunami, about a fictional undersea volcano on the verge of exploding and sending a monster tsunami smashing into California, I did a great deal of research into the world of natural disasters.
Many different species in the history of life on this planet have simply ceased to be. Gone but not forgotten these strange animals leave evidence of their existence entombed in the sedimentary layers of the earth's crust.
