GEOPHYSICS: Herculean Displacement

Reservoir geophysics

The concept of petroleum reservoir geophysics is relatively new. In the past, the role of geophysics was largely confined to exploration and, to a lesser degree, the development of discoveries. As cost-efficiency has taken over as a driving force in the economics of the oil and gas industry and as major assets near abandonment, geophysics has increasingly been recognized as a tool for improving...

Making the SDGs useful: a Herculean task

www.thelancet.com Vol 388 October 8, 2016 1453 The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been called “senseless, dreamy, garbled”, given that they include 17 goals, 169 targets, and 230 indicators, in contrast to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that focused on eight goals, 18 targets, and 48 indicators. Among the earliest sceptics of the SDGs was the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,...

The Herculean task of killing cancer cells

in Greek mythology, one of Hercules’ labors was to slay the Hydra. The task seems impossible, as the creature was a multi-headed monster with the ability to grow two new heads when one was cleaved off. Oncologists face a similar daunting task in eliminating malignant cells, as each cancer appears to have its own Hydra protecting it. The suppression of the Forkhead box class O (FOXO) family of t...

Costameres: the Achilles' heel of Herculean muscle.

Success with Geophysics: Archaeology

Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) has recently gained a wide acceptance in the archaeological community as a method to quickly and accurately locate buried archaeological features, artifacts, and important cultural and geological strata in the near-surface. The GPR method has now become one of the primary tools for geophysical feature identification primarily because of its three-dimensional abili...