Researchers from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan University and Southern University of Science and Technology recently unveiled a possible connection between catastrophe ...

Editor’s Note: Jay Lehr, Ph.D., is a leading authority on groundwater hydrology and has served as executive director of the National Association of Groundwater Scientists and Engineers. Lehr is a ...

Sometimes things are fine—until they're not. A boat capsizes. A bridge collapses. The stock market takes an extreme turn. These are examples of "catastrophe theory," a tool in mathematics that can be ...

Every year natural disasters cause damages running into the billions of dollars. A mathematical theory that would help explain, predict, and even avert these fateful phenomena would certainly go a ...

The Youngest Toba eruption was a supervolcanic eruption that occurred around 75,000 years ago at the site of present-day Lake Toba in Sumatra, Indonesia. It is one of the Earth's largest known ...