Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: February 18, 2016 Oklahoma is dealing with earthquakes, so why isn’t Texas? Texas regulators seem to have a tough time finding a link between injection wells used to dispose of hydraulic fracturing wastewater and seismic tremors. A SMU-led study team found a probable association but the Texas Railroad Commission continues […]
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SMU graduate and undergraduate students presented results of ongoing and completed SMU-based research on February 10. Dedman College students received an impressive 20 awards. Research Day aims to foster communication between students in different disciplines, give students the opportunity to present their work in a professional setting, and share the outstanding research being conducted at SMU […]
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Save the date: SMU Research Day Feb. 10
Daily Mail Originally Posted: January 14, 2016 SMU professor Louis Jacobs led a study that discovered dozens of rare “walking whale” fossils in the Sahara desert. “The whales were stranded upriver at a time when east Africa was at sea level and was covered with forest and jungle,” said Jacobs. Now, a $2.17 billion museum […]
Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: The fault lines on the map are clear and strikingly large. They slant north to south across Dallas, Tarrant and neighboring counties. Some have nicknames. One is the Big D Fault, a thick, red gash at least 14 miles long that cuts below Oak Cliff, Love Field and the Medical […]
Originally Posted: January 15, 2016 Congratulations to Maria Richards, SMU Geothermal Laboratory Coordinator in the Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences. She has been nominated for a 2016 Clean Energy Education & Empowerment (C3E) Award in education. The goal of the C3E Awards is to advance the work and increase the visibility of emerging women leaders […]
SMU Research Originally Posted: January 8, 2016 It was a good year for faculty and student research efforts. Here is a small sampling of public and published acknowledgements during 2015: Research makes the cover of Biochemistry Drugs important in the battle against cancer were tested in a virtual lab by SMU biology professors to see […]
Science Magazine Originally Posted: January 6, 2016 Does North Korea really have an H-bomb? By Richard Stone North Korea claims to have detonated its first hydrogen bomb yesterday. But experts are skeptical that the pariah state detonated—not an ordinary atomic device—but a much more powerful “H-bomb of justice,” as state media is now calling it. […]
Yahoo News Originally Posted: December 28, 2015 Every year, scientists wade into jungles, deserts and museum collections to examine animals and, if they’re lucky, discover a new species. For instance, in 2015 researchers identified a ruby-red sea dragon off the coast of Australia, a new species of giant tortoise in the Galápagos Islands and an […]
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