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La buena noticia para Volkswagen es que entregó casi 7,5 millones de vehículos a clientes durante los tres primeros trimestres de 2015. La mala noticia es que los 8,5 millones de coches de VW lo más probable es que sean objeto de una retirada obligatoria…y eso es sólo en Europa.

Las consecuencias del escándalo de las emisiones de Volkswagen continúan resaltando, cuatro semanas después de las revelaciones acerca de la instalación de un software de "desactivación de...

A new NASA-led analysis of a moderate magnitude 5.1 earthquake that shook Greater Los Angeles in 2014 finds that the earthquake deformed Earth's crust across a broad region encompassing the northern Los Angeles Basin and northern Orange County. The shallow ground movements observed from this earthquake likely reflect strain accumulated on deeper faults, which remain locked and may be capable of producing future earthquakes.

A team of NASA and university researchers led by geophysicist Andrea Donnellan of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, used GPS and NASA airborne radar data to measure surface deformation in Earth's crust caused by the March 28, 2014, earthquake, which was centered in La Habra, California. The earthquake was felt widely in Orange, Los Angeles, Ventura, Riverside, San Bernardino, Kern and San Diego counties. While the earthquake was relatively moderate in size, the earthquake's depth (3.6 miles, or 5.85 kilometers) and location within a highly populated region resulted in more than $12 million in damage. Most of the damage occurred within a 3.7-mile (6-kilometer) radius of the epicenter, with a substantial amount of damage south of the main rupture.

On hot, humid days, you might jump into water to cool down, but for the tiny mangrove rivulus fish, cooling down means jumping out of water, according to a new study from the University of Guelph.

In the study published today in the journal Biology Letters, the researchers describe how these fish air-chill themselves on solid ground in order to drop their body temperatures. The researchers also found that fish exposed to higher temperatures for a week tolerated warmer water better.

The fish jump out of the water to escape rising temperatures, said integrative biology professor Pat Wright, senior author of the study.

Durante muchos años, y con el avance de la tecnología digital que va velozmente creciendo, seguimos esperando que las oficinas sean sin papeles o como han optado por decir “Paperless”. Pero bien reza un dicho mexicano “es mejor malo por conocido que bueno por conocer” y como las generaciones anteriores nos han heredado un cerro de papeles y un sistema empresarial donde todo tiene que ir impreso y firmado por TRIPLICADO, pues así lo dejamos, para qué nos metemos en líos y problemas de “a gratis”. Así ha sido, así es y así será. Entonces, el avance de la tecnología solo se da en nuestros gadgets, cada vez más sofisticados y en la enorme oportunidad de “Apps” que existen, tanto para IOS como para Android, pero no ingresan en nuestras oficinas y menos en nuestro día a día laboral.

La pregunta es ¿Por qué no? Están al alcance de un clic (literalmente es un clic) pero es difícil cambiar una forma de trabajar, así que el camino para la organización “Paperless” es largo, complicado, consumirá tiempo y recursos (económicos, personales, tecnológicos) pero no es imposible y los beneficios ambientales y económicos son significativos.

Quiero remarcar esto, existen beneficios económicos importantes para las organizaciones que, seriamente, decidan por hacerse de procesos con menos papeles, ...

As debate roils over EPA regulations proposed this month limiting the release of the potent greenhouse gas methane during fracking operations, a new University of Vermont study funded by the National Science Foundation shows that abandoned oil and gas wells near fracking sites can be conduits for methane escape not currently being measured.

The study, to be published in Water Resources Research on October 20, demonstrates that fractures in surrounding rock produced by the hydraulic fracturing process are able to connect to preexisting, abandoned oil and gas wells, common in fracking areas, which can provide a pathway to the surface for methane.

A recent paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science showed that methane release measured at abandoned wells near fracking sites can be significant but did not investigate how the process occurs.