Faruk Tokluoğlu/Pexels Powerful earthquakes in urban areas can cause a shocking amount of devastation, with lives lost and buildings destroyed. Indeed, more than 60,000 people have already died in such events in this year alone. Ever since scientists discovered what causes these awful catastrophes, they’ve also been trying to predict them in a bid to …
A Ukrainian soldier of an artillery unit fires towards Russian positions outside Bakhmut on November … [+] 8, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by BULENT KILIC / AFP) (Photo by BULENT KILIC/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Seismometers are generally used by scientists to study local or distant earthquakes, but …
Did you ever wonder what seismic activity or ocean pollution sounds like? Scientists have found that patterns in data can be transformed into sound and even music. This week, two different performances demonstrated how patterns in data can sometimes become more interesting when they’re presented as music. Old Faithful was one of the sources of …