Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. More than 70 schools across the ACT and Queensland have been forced to close over fears of children being exposed to asbestos-laden ...

Dozens of schools across Australia and New Zealand were shut on Monday after asbestos contamination prompted recall of children’s coloured play sand and clean-up efforts. The closures follow ...

The coloured sand products sold by Kmart NZ have tested positive for tremolite asbestos, prompting last week’s urgent recall notice from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE).

Early childhood centres and schools in Australia and New Zealand are removing and disposing of coloured sand products after trace amounts of asbestos were found in some samples. More than 70 public ...

Multiple schools and early learning centres accross the country have shut after asbestos was found in coloured sand used for children's art and sensory play. On Thursday, WorkSafe ACT issued a ...

The coloured sand products sold by Kmart NZ have tested positive for tremolite asbestos, prompting last week’s urgent recall notice from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE).

In a national recall, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission found Kadink decorative sand may contain tremolite asbestos, a naturally occurring asbestos. The sand is used at some schools ...

It's "the Sistine Chapel of crystals," says Juan Manuel García- Ruiz. The geologist announced this week that he and a team of researchers have unlocked the mystery of just how the minerals in Mexico's ...

Imagine a clock that doesn’t have electricity, but its hands and gears spin on their own for all eternity. In a new study, physicists at CU Boulder have used liquid crystals, the same materials that ...

Looking at the virtual reality gaming landscape right now, it's hard not to be excited about what the future holds. We're long past the point of it being just a gimmick thanks to multiple triple-A ...

Valuable information is retrieved from the integrated investigation of the field relationships, microstructure and mineral compositions of harzburgites from the Neoproterozoic Cerro Mantiqueiras ...