“Beautiful British Columbia,” the license plates don’t lie. But beneath those beautiful mountains and rugged terranes exist one of the most violent and deadly of all natural hazards – earthquakes. On Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012,...

In the sky with diamonds It’s like something out of a science fiction movie. Forty light years away in the constellation of Cancer, orbiting a sun-like star, exists a planet that does not consist of...

The “R” word: a brief history Radioactivity: the term first used in 1898 by Marie Curie in her paper entitled “Emissions of Rays by Uranium and Thorium Compounds.” Immediately following its discovery, radiation received an...