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Imagine if a fire broke out causing an explosion at the San Onofre Nuclear Power plant in San Clemente, California, just like the one that crippled the Fukushima Dai-ichi Plant in Japan last month. That’s the mock scenario playing out at the Joint Information Center in Irvine, California. Just like …

Will the wandering magnetic North Pole create crazy superstorms? The eye-popping connection between the planet’s weather and its magnetic field has caught hold among scaremongers recently, ever since scientists described the potential of devastating “superstorms” — storms caused, scientists say, by flowing gushers of water in the sky known as …

It’s the year 2154 and humankind has reached out to the stars in director James Cameron’s new science-fiction epic Avatar. The movie takes us to an exotic jungle moon called Pandora where humans are the aliens and a clash is brewing with the natives. Cameron, who has served as an …