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Popular Mechanics March 25, 2010 Erin McCarthy	Lost's Storm Wave Is No Tsunami; Couldn't Carry a Ship Inland The most recent episode of Lost showed us how the Black Rock was deposited inland by a massive storm wave after destroying the island's famous four-toed statue. But could a wooden ship really do that much damage?
Geotimes October 2004 Megan Sever	Super Waves Sink Ships For centuries, sailors have reported giant walls of water rising up out of nowhere, and for the first time, satellite observations are confirming the existence of such rogue waves.
AskMen.com Bernie Alexander	Tsunamis: Waves Of Destruction Understanding the tsunami: definition, origins, history, warning signs, etc.
Popular Mechanics October 23, 2009 Tyghe Trimble	Wave Power Desalination Plant Coming Soon to Texas With seawater filtered with energy from wave power filling corn-based plastic bottles, I have as close as you can get to environmentally friendly bottled water.
Geotimes February 2004 Naomi Lubick	Triggering Tsunamis A controversy over whether an earthquake or an underwater landslide generated the 1998 Papua New Guinea tsunami rekindled interest in such events; it also drew geologists into a field that had been dominated by modelers and seismologists.
Geotimes November 2006 Megan Sever	Earthquakes, Tsunamis Strike Japan A magnitude-8.3 earthquake struck off the Kuril Islands between Japan and Russia, followed by a series of strong aftershocks, at least four of which were above magnitude 6.0, according to the USGS.
Geotimes February 2005 Naomi Lubick	Tsunami Devastates Asia Geoscientists won't know exactly what happened in the Indian Ocean event until they can get into the field.
National Defense November 2005 Grace Jean	U.S. Expanding Tsunami Alert Network The government has pledged $37.5 million over the next two years for the wave monitoring and detection project, which includes the production and deployment of 31 new DART (Deep-Ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis) buoys.
Outside June 2009 Joe Mozingo	Slab Waves Slab waves bring on the next frontier of surfing.
Wired May 2004 Carl Hoffman	Endless Summer (on Demand) Kerry Black is bringing world-class waves to the malls of America. Grab your board - surf's up 6 a.m. to midnight, 365 days a year.
Science News September 14, 2002 Ivars Peterson	Doing the Wave Now researchers have created a mathematical model that illuminates what it takes to trigger "the wave" in sports stadia, which they describe as concerted motion in an excitable medium.
Scientific American December 26, 2005	Echoes from the Past Many scientists are encouraging officials in tsunami-prone areas to consider such factors as destroyed protective natural barriers like coral reefs and sand dunes when designing new building codes and evacuation routes.
IEEE Spectrum March 2005 Philip E. Ross	Waiting and Waiting For the Next Killer Wave A tsunami alarm for the Indian Ocean may be worth the cost, but can it retain public support over the long haul?
Technology Research News June 4, 2003 Eric Smalley	Shock waves tune light Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have used a computer simulation to show that sending shock waves through photonic crystals could lead to faster and cheaper telecommunications devices, more efficient solar cells, and advances in quantum computing.
Technology Research News November 17, 2004 Eric Smalley	Nanotubes Tune in Light Carbon nanotubes can act as antennas, but instead of transmitting and receiving radio waves, antennas of their size pick up the nanoscale wavelengths of visible light.
InternetNews March 8, 2005 Paul Shread	Technical Analysis: Nasdaq Remains Stuck The techs just can't break free of their trading range.
Geotimes August 2006 Megan Sever	Faster Tsunami Warnings with GPS Time is of the essence when a giant earthquake strikes, especially underwater. Now, a team of researchers says that they have found a new way -- using GPS -- to more quickly determine if the quake is large enough to produce an ocean-wide tsunami.
Geotimes November 2006 Laura S. L. Kong	Guarding Against Tsunamis: What Does It Mean To Be Ready? Despite the implementation of new tsunami warning systems, much work is ahead before the coastal communities of the world can be truly prepared.
The Motley Fool June 18, 2007 Rich Duprey	Riding Out a Financial Tsunami Investing in some stocks will make you feel like a professional surfer. Other stocks will make your worst wipeout seem like a ride in a water park.
Science News January 31, 2009	Science Past For January 31, 1959 By listening to the sea's voice, Russian scientists say they may be able to detect approaching storms.
Geotimes October 2004 Jay Chapman	Tsunami Story Strikes Again Mega-tsunamis are not nearly as frequent as the news stories, and the likelihood of an event is relatively low. Continued debate among scientists, however, keeps the stories in the news and heightens the perceived threat.
National Defense November 2005 Grace Jean	Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System to Become Operational in 2006 UNESCO officials set forth a plan calling for the establishment of seven regional tsunami advisory centers in the Indian Ocean basin, the installation and upgrading of coastal sea-level gauges, seismic instruments and stations, and the deployment of deep underwater sensors.
Geotimes April 2005 Naomi Lubick	Sumatra Quake Stronger Than Thought Now that researchers have had time to go back to the records, they are finding indications that last December's Sumatra earthquake released much more energy than they thought, in the form of rare low-frequency seismic waves.
Technology Research News October 6, 2004 Eric Smalley	Quantum math models speech Researchers at King's College London and Phonologica Ltd. are using mathematical tools from quantum physics that could lead to improved telecommunications, speech recognition and speech synthesis technologies.
Geotimes April 2007 Kathryn Hansen	Ocean Waves Drive Earth's Hum High-energy near-shore waves are the main source of energy for the constant seismic background noise known as Earth's "hum."
Geotimes December 2006 Carolyn Gramling	Natural Hazards: Damage Control Watching for the Waves: Q&A with David Green, NOAA's Tsunami Program manager, on the newest technologies, systems and collaborations that scientists are devising to send swifter warnings.
Technology Research News February 23, 2005	Rod arrays focus sound Researchers from the Polytechnic University of Valencia in Spain have produced a pair of flat lenses that control soundwaves.
Geotimes November 2003 Naomi Lubick	Turkish tectonics Researchers recently published preliminary results of the first data collected with modern techniques documenting the tectonic and seismic regimes of eastern Turkey. Their work may overturn conceptions of the tectonic setting of the region.
Wired February 2005 Sir Arthur C. Clarke	Letter from Sri Lanka The author talks about the tsunami's aftermath and the roles of science fiction and technology in predicting future disasters.
Technology Research News March 10, 2004 Eric Smalley	X-shape pulses hold together A team of researchers in Italy and Lithuanian has found that under certain conditions a pulse of light can form an X shape that does not spread out.
Outside April 2007 Megan Michelson	Swell Power The next wave of clean energy will be breaking near you
The Motley Fool August 24, 2007 Jack Uldrich	Ocean Power Creates a Ripple Wave power -- like wind power -- will also become a credible and reliable source of energy in the future, but it will take at least another decade for the technology to mature and scale to a level where investors can rely on not just its potential for stock appreciation but on actual profits.
Geotimes November 2005 Naomi Lubick	Large Quake, Small Tsunami for Japan A large earthquake several hundred kilometers offshore Japan triggered a tsunami warning and a subsequent small tsunami. Three or four large events have occurred on this subduction fault over the past several centuries, as the Pacific plate slowly presses westward under Japan.
IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Erico Guizzo	Winner: Solving the Oil Equation A team of geophysicists and computer scientists closes in on the ultimate seismic-imaging code for finding oil.
AskMen.com Harry Marks	Top 10: Surfing Beaches Some people hit the beach to relax and bask in the sun, but the real beach lovers are those who engage in a much more energetic activity: surfing. If you are among the growing number of adventurous sportsmen who love to hang 10, you'll be very interested in the following list.
Geotimes March 2005 Susan E. Hough	Earthquakes: Predicting the Unpredictable? Seismologists are quite good at identifying where large earthquakes are likely to occur on time scales of several decades to centuries, but still unable to identify regions where earthquakes will happen tomorrow, next week, or even within the next few years.
Outside May 2006	Surf Guide Looking for liquid thrills, a cool buzz, and the supreme stoke of walking on water? Here's the fast formula for your surfing immersion.
Geotimes June 2005 Naomi Lubick	California Earthquake Spawns Tsunami Worry The epicenter of a magnitude-7.2 earthquake that struck off northern California set off a tsunami warning for the entire West Coast, leading to an evacuation from Crescent City, Calif.
Geotimes August 2007 Carolyn Gramling	Earth's Core is Solid, After All Seismic waves passing through Earth's center have long puzzled researchers, as some waves travel fast enough to indicate that Earth's inner core is solid iron-nickel crystals, but they do not travel quite as quickly as scientists would expect, based on studies of stiff iron alloys.
Geotimes April 2005 Naomi Lubick	Tsunami Reveals Ancient Ruins The waves' receding force, which scoured away sediment, uncovered relics of what is believed to be an ancient port city and portions of a temple, including an eroded monument of a lion's head and carvings of elephants and soldiers.
IEEE Spectrum July 2011 Ritchie S. King	The Einstein Telescope Planning a bigger, badder gravitational-wave detector
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Inc. June 2004 Ian Mount	Blue Streak Sky Dayton, founder of EarthLink and Boingo Wireless, has a way of hitting upon the waves of the future. In his spare time, he hits waves of a different kind -- surfing.
National Defense March 2011 Eric Beidel	Research Could Lead to Pocket-Sized Bomb Detectors That is the ultimate goal of university researchers trying to figure out a way to use sound and radio waves to detect bombs.
Geotimes July 2006 Jennifer Yauck	Quake Triggers Deadly Tsunami Off Java A major undersea earthquake occurred south of Indonesia, triggering a local tsunami that hit the island of Java. At least 80 people are dead after a 6-foot-high wave crashed ashore on the island's southern coast.