

Amazon Kindle e-readers will finally support ePub files - making it easier to load e-books you DIDN'T buy.Largest known Native America cave art dating back 1,000 years - including a 10ft depiction of a RATTLKESNAKE.

Is THIS why aliens haven't visited Earth yet? Extraterrestrial civilisations grow so large they 'burn out'.Taste of the future! Robochef learns to 'taste' food at different stages of the chewing process to check.Switching from red meat to a fungus-based alternative like Quorn for one-in-five meals could HALVE.'Black widow binary' discovered: Astronomers spot a neutron star circling and slowly consuming its companion.A hair-raising invention! Scientists are developing a robot with electronic HAIRS that mimic the natural.Outage outrage! Fury when Facebook goes down proves that social media is now as essential as gas and.Children's clothing labelled as 'green' and 'non-toxic', including from Lands' End, Columbia and Old Navy.Scientists identify the most extreme heatwaves ever recorded: North America heatwave last summer was only.Moon may have been siphoning water from Earth's atmosphere for billions of years and storing it as ice deep.Human urine could replace chemical fertilizers which have a devastating impact on climate change - but it.'Supersonic ballet!' Rocket Lab succeeds in catching a falling rocket with a HELICOPTER for the first time.Researchers have scoured every imaginable signal trying to find reliable precursors, but nothing has panned out,' Hough said. 'We wish it were as simple as the movie portrays. Scientists can't predict when a jolt is coming and are generally pessimistic about ever having that ability.Įvery warning sign scrutinized - animal behavior, weather patterns, electromagnetic signals, atmospheric observations, levels of radon gas in soil or groundwater - has failed. In the film, Lawrence Hayes, a fictional seismologist at California Institute of Technology, notices spikes in 'magnetic pulses' that light up California like a Christmas tree, heralding a monster quake.ĭespite a century of research, in reality earthquake prediction remains elusive. Hundreds of old brick buildings and concrete structures and a few high-rise steel buildings would collapse.Ĭomputer models show the San Andreas is capable of producing a magnitude-8.3 quake, but anything larger is dubious. Researchers calculated a magnitude-7.8 would cause 1,800 deaths and 50,000 injuries. The lesson: It doesn't take a magnitude-9 or greater to wreak havoc. The San Andreas fault line runs up the coast of California, and Hough said is poses a threat of breaking again without warning
