• Earthquake hazard in Oklahoma increased due to ongoing swarm

    USGS reported today that since January 2009, more than 200 magnitude 3.0 or greater earthquakes have rattled Central Oklahoma, which marked a significant rise in the frequency of these seismic events. 

    Important to people living in the Oklahoma City region

  • Cometary collisions as source of life on Earth

    Comets contain elements such as water, ammonia, methanol and carbon dioxide that could have supplied the raw materials, in which upon impact on early Earth would have yielded an abundant supply of energy to produce amino acids and jump start life.

    In a research that

  • Outdoor air pollution a leading cause of cancer

    The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), WHO's agency specialized for cancer, announced on October 16, 2013 that it has classified outdoor air pollution as carcinogenic to humans (Group 1). The world’s leading experts