WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- Science Advances, an open access online journal from the American Association for the Advancement of Science that focuses on advances on the frontiers of science, published research articles on the following topics in its Vol. 7, No. 32 edition:

Earth, Environmental, Ecological, and Space Sciences:

* Early evidence for historical overfishing in the Gulf of Mexico

* The source scaling and seismic productivity of slow slip transients