“Why Did They Die?”

The Durban deep proto-team catastrophe--why did they die?

Why did 12 infants die? Winnipeg's endless inquest seeks answers.

Canada's longest running inquest will wrap up in Winnipeg in September. Although the judge conducting it will be answering many questions, one of the key ones is the most simple: Should a province the size of Manitoba operate a program as sophisticated as pediatric cardiac surgery?

Patients with tuberculosis in Bolivia: why do they die?

The objective of this research was to analyze why patients with tuberculosis (TB) die and to evaluate whether there are factors contributing to their fatal outcome that could be corrected. A cross-sectional observational study was conducted of the patients with active TB or its sequelae admitted to the TB ward of the main public hospital in the city of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, over a 29-month perio...

Martian outflow channels: How did their source aquifers form, and why did they drain so rapidly?

Catastrophic floods generated ~3.2 Ga by rapid groundwater evacuation scoured the Solar System's most voluminous channels, the southern circum-Chryse outflow channels. Based on Viking Orbiter data analysis, it was hypothesized that these outflows emanated from a global Hesperian cryosphere-confined aquifer that was infused by south polar meltwater infiltration into the planet's upper crust. In ...

What did they know, and when did they know it?

voted to ease monetary policy, which was widely reported as a lowering of interest rates. Although some interest rates fell with the Fed' s action, the declines were generally small, and over succeeding months market interest rates tended to rise. The yield on the Treasury' s 10-year note, for example, which had been 5.63 percent on January 30, and which closed at 5.60 percent on January 31, st...