... in China by a team of geoscientists at MIT shows that the quake resulted from faults with little seismic activity. Similar events in that area occur only once in every 2,000 to 10,000 years.
A bit of serendipity has given astronomers a surprise view of a never-before-observed event in the birth of a galaxy. University of Florida and University of California-Santa Cruz astronomers are the ...
One of the UK's rarest butterflies has produced a second brood in what conservationists are describing as an extremely rare event.
... Bulletin, shows that homicides of strangers by people diagnosed with schizophrenia are exceptionally rare events.
The study is one of a series of studies of homicide by the mentally ill by two ...
... ] stents compared with bare-metal stents. Although a relatively rare event, stent thrombosis is associated with a high risk of myocardial infarction (MI; heart attack) and death and ...
... the absence of these specific toxins.
"We found a chemical reporter that detects a relatively rare event, one that is related to the action of the toxin," said Yitzhak Tor, a professor of chemistry ...
... , both clinical and socio-economic, will have contributed to the decrease in suicide rates. Suicide is a rare event, and is, thankfully, rarer still among children and adolescents. However, it is ...
... if this underlying risk is reduced by the right amount, for a relatively rare event like C difficile the play of chance means that the actual number of cases seen may be higher ...
... number of emergency events that a law enforcement agency experienced.
"Sudden deaths are extremely rare events, but it is important to look into why these events happen and whether law enforcement ...
A few lucky people in the Indian Ocean will be treated to a rare event on Monday when an annular solar eclipse will transform the Sun into a dark disc with a blazing ring-shaped corona around its rim. ...
... to be rare. "So protecting against a rare event is hard, and it's hard to justify on its own in terms of cost benefit assessments." Haas suggested an emphasis on approaches ...
... short supply.
"An interesting thing about these results is that they suggest an important role for relatively rare events in directing evolutionary change," Slice said. "The overall structure of the ...
... bipedalism. The discovery of ancient hominin footprints is an incredibly rare event, and the new prints are the second oldest in the world after the 3.7-million year-old prints in ...
... the generation of a bond between two oxygen atoms promoted by a man-made metal complex is a very rare event, and it has been unclear how it can take place. Yet Milstein and his ...
... (HD) gene having a child who develops the disease. Although thought to be a very rare event, the probability has never been estimated using current information and disease guidelines. The findings, ...
