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A parent with alcohol problems can greatly increase your risk of food addiction.According to recent research, your risk of food addiction might be influenced by your parents’ drinking habits.According to a recent University of Michigan study, those who have a parent with a history of alcoholism are more likely to exhibit signs of food addiction.These items, which include ice cream, chocolate, pizza, and fries, have disproportionately high levels of refined fats and carbohydrates that may cause some individuals to develop…

Haiti. Credit: CC0 Public Domain Using details from historical newspaper accounts and letters, seismologists have learned more about Haiti's 1860 Jour de Pâques (Easter Sunday) earthquake sequence, and how it might have impacted the country's most recent devastating earthquakes. …

The vast expanse of Lake Taupō's sky blue waters, crowned by hazy, mountainous horizons, invokes an extreme sense of tranquility. And yet, deep in the ground below, geological unrest is brewing, according to a new paper in the New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics.  Lake Taupō is the largest freshwater lake in Australasia, located at the center of New Zealand's north island. And while it appears peaceful today, the lake has a violent origin story. The lake's waters sit within a prehistoric caldera – a word based…

Strike-slip faults like the San Andreas have sections of locked movement and sections of slow and steady creep. Researchers now have physically modeled what happens to the land around faults with different types of movement. Credit: John Wiley/Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0 Strike-slip faults can be fickle about their movement—they can move slow and steady or remain stationary until their built-up stress is let loose in one go. But how…

Willow Smith has returned with a heavy new track “ It’s My Fault,” which is accompanied by a striking performance video directed by Dana Trippe. A press release dubs it “the first taste” of a new album due this summer.Following the release of “Purge,” the latest from Willow sees her once again lean on a pop-punk sound. This time around, however, it’s the emotive offering that sees Smith channel her frustrations into grunge territory.“It’s all too often in tender emotional states we try to blame our hurts on other people,”…

A three-dimensional visualization shows how rock gouge can arrest a rupture (in red) but, with a combination of dynamic stressing and dynamic weakening, will ultimately re-nucleate the rupture shortly thereafter (in blue). Credit: Rubino et. al., Nature, 2022 By simulating earthquakes in a lab, Caltech engineers have provided strong experimental support for a form of earthquake propagation now thought responsible for the…

Unexpected damage zone found along the currently strike-slip Futagawa fault. Credit: KyotoU The 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes shocked inhabitants of the western island of Kyushu, causing hundreds of casualties and serious damage to vital infrastructure. The epicenter of the quake was traced to the Futagawa fault in a region neighboring Mount Aso, an active volcano in Kumamoto Prefecture that last erupted in October 2021.…