Growing up in California, “The Big One” was less of a theoretical occurrence and more of a “shall-not-be-named.” It settled into rituals, whether hiding under a table for earthquake drills in ...

An 82-year-old woman who lost her home to the Palisades Fire last winter is soon moving into her new house, which has been made of fire-resistant materials thanks to a Gardena-based company. Sue ...

A devastating earthquake exposed how unprepared modern cities really were. Most of the deaths weren’t caused by the shaking itself, but by buildings collapsing on the people inside them. In response, ...

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Eight years ago, Erik Thorsen — CEO of Columbia Memorial Hospital in Astoria, Ore. — received a warning that no hospital administrator wants to hear: A big earthquake could cause his hospital's ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1974, five years before he wrote his Pulitzer Prize–winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter was ...

UNDATED (CNN/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - Scientists have created a new material that's stronger than steel. An American company, InventWood, has introduced a groundbreaking material called "Superwood," ...