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For years, textbooks taught that shallow faults—cracks in the Earth’s upper crust—were too stable to cause earthquakes. Once ...

As well as being cheap, bamboo appears to have remarkable qualities of seismic resistance. Now it's being used to try to ...

Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute are developing tiny drones inspired by bats for search and rescue missions ...

Google's plan to install 140 more diesel backup generators than previously approved for its east Fort Wayne campus could go ...

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Generational poverty has plagued the Olympic Peninsula since the spotted owl decision. The best solution is to trust local leaders to solve the problem.

After a renovation of Mt. Zion AME Church, worshippers are voicing distrust of their pastor, The Rev. Kylon Middleton, who also serves as the chairman of Charleston County Council.

This topsy-turvy guide to Southern California earthquakes details the history of earthquakes in the Coachella Valley and other facts to know.

Danish-American postdoctoral researcher Louisa Barama, with the help of fellow staff members from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Geophysical Monitoring Programs, is determining how ...

Their commercial model was soon being copied all over the world and inspired Emile Zola’s novel Au Bonheur des Dames. The store continued to expand with Gustave Eiffel (yet to have designed his ...

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