"The mechanical performance of the robots has an immediate effect." Engineers develop incredible robot that could save lives in disasters: 'Rare but devastating events' first appeared on The Cool Down ...

ATLANTA — Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, a researcher at Georgia Tech has developed a simulator to understand the failures of the levees that led to widespread flooding.

SENDAI, Japan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The number of people forced from their homes each year by disasters has quadrupled over the past four decades, and the risk of being displaced has doubled, ...