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Monday, 18 February 2013
Heavy metal music fans in a mosh pit act like atoms in a gas - a finding that could advance emergency evacuation design and planning.
Wednesday, 21 September 2011
An Australian seismologist says this week's trial of Italian scientists for failing to warn of a devastating earthquake could muzzle experts from sharing their knowledge in the future.
Friday, 27 August 2010
Australia's leading body responsible for monitoring space weather has dismissed claims that a massive solar storm could "wipe out the Earth's entire power grid".
Monday, 12 July 2010
Australian researchers develop software to let mobile phones communicate with each other where there is no reception.
Thursday, 18 February 2010
Society needs to learn from resilient ecosystems if it is to better cope with unanticipated shocks in the future, say experts.
Tuesday, 10 February 2009
An Australian fire-behaviour specialist who helped authorities track the infernos, says the golden rule of surviving a bushfire - evacuate early or fight to the bitter end - still stands, despite the weekend's high death toll.
Monday, 9 February 2009
Australians remain unprepared to deal with bushfires despite a long history of loss and devastation from natural disasters, according to some of the country's leading bushfire researchers.
Monday, 10 March 2008
We can expect an average three catastrophic, magnitude 9 or greater earthquakes around the world each century, according to a new study.