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Astronomy: Good heavens It's 300ft tall, more powerful than Hubble and stands as a living monument to a lost scientific age. But the the high-maintenance Jodrell Bank telescope is now threatened with closure, says Peter Stanford. Photographs by Simon Norfolk
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There is, at first glance, something archaic about the Jodrell
Bank telescope which rises almost 300ft above the flat Cheshire
plain, outside Macclesfield. Its sheer size - 3,500 tons of steel and
rivets to support a great steel bowl, almost as wide as the whole
structure is tall, and which gathers incoming radio waves from all
over the universe - makes it look like a piece of outmoded Soviet
hardware. Yet this industrial brute, an icon of British modernity
when opened in 1957 by its founding father, Sir Bernard Lovell, is
paradoxically one of the most sensitive creatures in the world. There ...
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The ground beneath our feet ; From understanding earthquakes to developing new technologies for effective exploitation of natural resources, seismology promises a career full of challenges.
Newspaper article from: India Today
; ...suchearth-shakingtimes, the study of seismology is an emerging field that not only promises...innumerable lives in times to come. Seismology is the branch of earth sciences that...developing cities as part of engineering seismology to assist civil engineers in making...
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BSSA special issue on rotational seismology.
Newspaper article from: NewsRx Health & Science
; ...emerging field of rotational seismology and its applications to engineering...structural response. Rotational seismology is of interest to a wide range...including various branches of seismology, earthquake engineering, and...
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Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America Special Issue on Rotational Seismology.
News Wire article from: AScribe Science News Service
; ...emerging field of rotational seismology and its applications to engineering...structural response. Rotational seismology is of interest to a wide range...including various branches of seismology, earthquake engineering, and...
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Seismic advances in acquisition: acoustic imaging techniques in seismology. (data acquisition).
Magazine article from: Scientific Computing & Instrumentation
; ...sonar, while the terms seismic and seismology are used when earth is the propagation...with most spectroscopic techniques, seismology utilizes a source of energy that interacts...geophone array. Increasingly, 3-D seismology is used to visualize changes in production...
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STATE DEPT.: U.S. SEISMOLOGY CONSORTIUM MAKES EQUIPMENT LOANS WORLDWIDE
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...universities is offering long-term access to seismology equipment for institutions around the...seismologists and other scientists. Seismology is the study of earthquakes and the...Incorporated Research Institutes for Seismology (IRIS), funded by the U.S. National...
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EARTHQUAKE, SEISMOLOGY EXPERTS AVAILABLE AT PURDUE UNIVERSITY
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...oversees the seismograph and works with the seismology station at Purdue to record local and...and studies geophysics, earthquake seismology and satellite remote sensing of the...professor of geophysics. Nowack studies seismology and earthquakes. His research also...
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Birth of seismology
Newspaper article from: Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA
; ...outbreak. One hundred years ago today, seismology - the study of earthquakes - leaped...moment the quake struck, the science of seismology moved from infancy to adulthood. Under...what has become the modern science of seismology. Some of those findings included...
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School yard seismology
Magazine article from: Journal of Geoscience Education
; ...national and international levels. Seismology and earth sciences are no exception...establishing an EduSeis (Educational Seismology)program and thus have the advantages...teachers access to the wonderful world of seismology free of the rather involved mathematics...
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Seismology tools more sophisticated than ever
Newspaper article from: Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
; ...what makes our planet tick and rumble, shake and convulse. Seismology is among the youngest of sciences, and certainly important...of scientists. Not that prediction, the "Holy Grail" of seismology, is on the immediate horizon. But the work going on now...
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Kyrgyz Seismology Institute denies information about powerful quake.
News Wire article from: AKIpress News Agency
; The Seismology Institute denied rumors in the capital city regarding powerful and devastating...can not forecast strength of the quake,\" AKIpress was told in the Seismology Institute.The administration of secondary school No. 38 in Bishkek...
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