Anyone whose university residence was heated by steam probably remembers well the nighttime clanging and banging of pipes. But in addition to those noisy nights, steam systems depend on combustible ...

There are a number of ways to measure the magnitude of an earthquake. Most scales are based on the amplitude of seismic waves recorded on seismometers. These scales account for the distance between ...

Geo-engineering (the deliberate large-scale manipulation of the environment to combat anthropogenic changes in atmospheric chemistry) has long been touted as a way to counteract the catastrophic ...