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Assessing California Earthquake Forecasts
September 28, 2011 — Earthquake prediction remains an imperfect science, but the best forecasts are about 10 times more accurate than a random prediction, according to a new ... > full storyMore: -
In Unique Fire Tests, Outdoor Decks Will Be Under Firebrand Attack
September 28, 2011 — NIST will unleash its Dragon, an invention that bellows showers of glowing embers, at a unique wind tunnel test facility in Japan, where researchers will evaluate the vulnerability of outdoor deck ... > full story -
Salty Water and Gas Sucked Into Earth's Interior Helps Unravel Planetary Evolution
September 26, 2011 — An international team of scientists has provided new insights into the processes behind the evolution of the planet by demonstrating how salty water and gases transfer from the atmosphere into the ... > full story -
Engineers Simulate Large Earthquake on Curved Bridge
September 23, 2011 — Six full-size pickup trucks took a wild ride on a 16-foot-high steel bridge when it shook violently in a series of never-before-conducted experiments to investigate the seismic behavior of a curved ... > full story -
Observations of Fallout from the Fukushima Reactor Accident in San Francisco Bay Area Rainwater
September 21, 2011 — Researchers report that Japan's power plant accident fallout extended as far as the San Francisco Bay area, resulting in elevated levels of radioactive material that were nonetheless very low and ... > full story -
Racing Against Time: New Tool Available for Rapidly Rescuing Those Trapped Beneath Concrete
September 21, 2011 — When the World Trade Center's Twin Towers collapsed on Sept. 11, 2011, one of the most critical challenges that first responders faced was cutting through concrete to get to victims trapped. A new ... > full story -
Fukushima: Reflections Six Months on
September 19, 2011 — When the Tohoku earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station on March 11, 2011, the world witnessed the largest nuclear incident since the 1986 Chernobyl ... > full story -
Researchers Analyze the Evolving Human Relationship With Fire
September 14, 2011 — Humanity's relationship to fire -- including wildfires, burning of fossil fuels, controlled burns and human-caused fire -- is the focus of a report by an international team of ... > full storyMore: -
Double Jeopardy: Building Codes May Underestimate Risks Due to Multiple Hazards
September 13, 2011 — As large parts of the United States recover from nature's one-two punch -- an earthquake followed by Hurricane Irene -- building researchers warn that a double whammy of seismic and wind hazards can ... > full story -
Honduran Earthquake of 2009 Destroyed Half of Coral Reefs of Belizean Barrier Reef Lagoon
September 12, 2011 — Earth's coral reefs have not been faring well in recent decades, facing multiple threats from pollution, disease, elevated water temperatures, and overfishing. Often referred to as the "rainforests ... > full story
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