University researcher uses simulations and machine learning to reshape infrastructure resilience to withstand rare, ...

Here are 10 takeaways from The Oregonian/OregonLive’s four-part series on school seismic safety in the Portland area.

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The Himalayas are sending clear warning signals and calling for drastic policy changes and strict enforcement of laws.

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If and when a Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake hits the Portland region, soil liquefaction could dramatically worsen the damage, leading buildings to tilt, roads to buckle and utility lines to ...

At the center of nuclear reactors across the United States, a new type of chromium-coated fuel is being used to make the reactors more efficient and ...

John Galgiani has been waiting for this call. The 79-year-old physician is sitting on a chair in a side office at a health ...

The characters learn the hard way that the ground beneath them is not as stable and strong as they thought it was. Someone very important, Dr. Elias Varo, is one of the first to notice that the Earth ...

For millennia, indigenous cultures have accumulated a vast repository of information that has helped them to adapt and survive. Prior to European contact, the Quechua of the Andes used quinine from ...

We previously covered one such “gravity telescope” with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). Another one is the Japanese project Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector (KAGRA).