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And now, the volcano forecast

22 Oct 2014

Scientists are using volcanic gases to understand how volcanoes work, and as the basis of a hazard-warning forecast system.

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Haiti after the January 2010 earthquake

Ounce of prevention, pound of cure

09 Oct 2012

Working with humanitarian organisations in Haiti, Cambridge researchers have found that an information system they designed to track how regions...

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Car manufacturing

Crash, crisis, calamity: system shock in a globalised world

01 Oct 2012

Threats that cause supply chains and other networks to break down can cascade through today’s interconnected world of social, economic and financial...

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Dr Lucy Delap

Shipwrecked: women and children first?

20 Jan 2012

Romantic notions of heroism - the captain refusing to leave his sinking ship, women and children being ushered to safety - have been shattered by...

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