Lying atop a network of fault lines, where the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates meet, Afghanistan is prone to earthquakes. However, the Herat area has not seen an event for almost 1000 years. As such, it was the least likely area to experience the series of devastating earthquakes and aftershocks which are reported to have killed thousands this week. Afgh ... Show More
Aug 7
An end to allergic reactions?
As the United States secretary of health and human services, Robert F Kennedy Jr., announces a $500 million cut to mRNA vaccine research in the United States, we hear a statement from the Nobel Prize winning biologist who made mRNA vaccines possible. A team of scientists from Nor ... Show More
29m 37s
Feb 2023
ChatGPT And The Future Of AI, Turkey Earthquakes. February 10, 2023, Part 1
How Scientists Predict Where Earthquakes Will Strike Next
The pair of earthquakes that hit Turkey and Syria this week left the region grappling with death and destruction. Despite the region being seismically active, this particular area hadn’t seen an earthquake of this size for ... Show More
46m 11s
Aug 4
Russia’s Earthquake, Wonders of Walking and Surprising Plant Genetics
Host Rachel Feltman talks with Andrea Thompson, Scientific American’s senior sustainability editor, to discuss the massive Russian earthquake and the reason it produced such relatively minor tsunami waves. Plus, we discuss the lowdown on the Environmental Protection Agency’s move ... Show More
11m 2s
Jul 30
Tsunami warnings scaled back across northern Pacific
Tsunami warnings have been scaled back across much of the northern Pacific after a huge earthquake off eastern Russia. The earthquake, which hit near Kamchatka Peninsula on Wednesday, is one of the most powerful ever recorded. Tsunami warnings have since been downgraded in Japan, ... Show More
28m 57s
Apr 2025
Quel est le plus gros séisme dans l'histoire de la France ?
Le plus gros séisme jamais enregistré en France métropolitaine a eu lieu le 11 juin 1909, près de la ville de Lambesc, dans le département des Bouches-du-Rhône, en région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. Ce tremblement de terre, connu sous le nom de séisme de Lambesc, est le plus puis ... Show More
1m 46s
Feb 2025
Un astéroïde va-t-il s'écraser sur Terre en 2032 ?
En décembre 2024, la NASA a découvert un astéroïde nommé 2024 YR4, mesurant entre 40 et 100 mètres de diamètre. Les analyses initiales indiquent une probabilité d'impact avec la Terre le 22 décembre 2032, estimée à environ 1,2 %, soit une chance sur 83. Cette probabilité, bien qu ... Show More
1m 43s
May 2024
The Economics of Disasters
The Wuhan Coronavirus, the active impeachment of a sitting US president, an earthquake and volcanic eruption in the Philippines, floods in Indonesia, the death of Kobe Bryant, magnitude 7.7 earthquakes in the Caribbean and even my homeland down under has been on fire and then bur ... Show More
13m 42s