Science news articles about 'potholes'

  • Avoiding social potholes on your career path

    ... that people who occupy these 'structural holes' become more successful, some structural holes may be 'social potholes' that can harm you and your business," he warns. Both the positive and negative ...
  • Project succeeding to relocate Caspian terns

    ... terns came from East Sand Island and Rice island in the Columbia River estuary, while others originated from Potholes Reservoir near Moses Lake, Wash., and Crescent Island, near Pasco, Wash. "We are ...
  • In Africa, Scrabble more than a game

    To compete in the Francophone World Scrabble Championship, 32-year-old Elisee Poka spent five days in a bus traversing Africa's potholed roads. His competitors from France arrived by plane.
  • Argonne scientists discover new class of glassy material

    ... that the magnetic moments are continually fluctuating in magnitude causing the equivalent of temporal potholes that appear and then disappear long enough to disrupt the magnetic alignment. These ...
  • Immigrant Sun: Our star could be far from where it started in Milky Way

    ... erratic in the same way that a car's wheel might become wobbly after it hits a pothole. However, in the new simulations the orbits of some stars might get larger or smaller but still remain very ...
  • Is the salad bar safe? Produce concerns linger after summer scares

    ... miss bacteria that are microscopically embedded because it isn't always on the surface. It's like a pothole in the road. Someone could scrub the street with soap and water and rinse, but the material ...
  • NYC Trade Center dig exposes Ice Age landscape

    ... the World Trade Center site this summer for the foundations of a new skyscraper have uncovered features carved into the bedrock by glaciers about 20,000 years ago, including a 40-foot-deep pothole.
  • 'A dinosaur dance floor'

    ... the footprint of another or even in its own prints. "While these impressions may be mistaken for potholes caused by weathering, close examination reveals many footprint features," Seiler says. ...
  • Paleontologists doubt 'dinosaur dance floor'

    ... , an international paleontology journal. But they acknowledge there are strong arguments for the features being potholes rather than dinosaur tracks. The original study cited the possibility that the ...
  • Researcher designs robot that jumps like a grasshopper

    ... , giving it the manoeuvrability of wheels without the problem of overturning or getting stuck in potholes. The robot is also flexible and small, weighing less than a kilogramme, meaning it's not ...
  • Anatomy of a Serial Killer

    ... body rocks with the motion of the pickup as he navigates the dirt road’s gauntlet of potholes and rocks. Since his retirement from the Missoula County Sheriff’s Department in 2000, Weatherman has ...
  • New Shock Absorber Turns Pothole Power Into Electricity

    Coming (maybe) to a hybrid near you: new technology that could help run a vehicle off the energy generated by bumps in the road.
  • Potholes on the road to ethanol from crop waste rather than food crops

    Those highly publicised efforts to produce ethanol fuel from wheat straw, corn cobs, and other crop waste - rather than food crops - appear to be stalling as biofuel companies face mounting ...
  • Electronic health records: potholes on the road to eHealth

    Canadians are heavy users of the health-care system. Every year, there are 322 million office-based visits to the doctor. The vast majority of them - 94 per cent - result in handwritten paper records ...
  • High tech for bicycles

    The roadside features such as curbstone edges, potholes, streetcar tracks etc. frequently rattle the nerves of any bicyclist. But for years now, professional and recreational bikers alike have been ...

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