Massive protests erupted outside an Australian arms fair in Melbourne. About 1,200-strong mob clashed with police, throwing rocks, liquid irritants and firing missiles. Some even hurled manure at the ...

Despite the sporadic nature of seismic activity in Australia, the country’s long history of minimal earthquakes has led to a ...

The piezoelectric effect has been known since the 1880s. It is essentially the ability of a material to generate an electric ...

A minor earthquake has struck Victoria this morning ... It comes after a magnitude 3.0 quake struck 500km away in Sandy Point ...

New South Wales has been hit by another earthquake, three weeks after the same area felt a 4.8 magnitude quake. Seniors are being urged to take advantage of easy and simple tools to preserve their ...

Another earthquake has rocked NSW’s Hunter Region, with people living across the state reporting being woken by rocking beds.

New research links the formation of gold nuggets to the seismic forces generated by earthquakes, revealing quartz's role in their creation.

The strain imparted by an earthquake can generate voltages in quartz veins that stimulate the mineralization of gold.

Quartz is what is called a piezoelectric material. There aren’t many minerals like this on Earth, and quartz is by far the ...

Researchers have uncovered that large gold nuggets formation is linked to seismic events, due to electric fields generated by ...

A 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck the Banda Sea ... approximately 190km south-east of Melbourne.

The second year of the Melbourne festival delivered talent and creativity in spades – leaving me disrupted, enlivened and ...