C.I. Office, Frankfurt, Germany.

The Catastrophe Institute [C.I] is an international think-tank which aims to experiment with disaster - exploring changing perceptions of catastrophe in relation to the places we live and people we know.

Juliane Stiegele , Augsburg, Germany.

Artist Juliane Stiegele undertakes a second stage of the C.I Pheromone Experiment on the public tram system in Augsburg, Germany this month. Follow the progress of the experiment online.

Members of C.I. were based in Kellerberrin in Western Australia for 5 weeks during September/October 2005 conducting a series of experiments involving the local community. The results will be open to public viewing in Kellerberrin during March 2006.

current time: seven minutes to midnight.

"The world-famous Doomsday Clock has been tracking the course of global security since 1947, its minute hand moving closer to and further from midnight to convey the dangers to the world of extraordinary and powerful weapons. Whether it be the apprehension that followed the first thermonuclear tests or the optimism accompanying the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Clock has tracked the prospects for human survival for nearly 60 years and is still ticking." - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

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Source: The Board of Directors, March/April 2002, pp. 4-7 (vol. 58, No. 2). © 2002 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

" The few who might survive will wish they had died, they will struggle, forlornly, on a wrecked planet" - Dr Arnon Dar.

Sooner or later, a catastrophe from space will wipe out almost all life on Earth. According to Dr Arnon Dar, of the Technion Space Research Institute, Israel, a particular type of exploding star going off anywhere in our region of the Universe would devastate our planet.

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Source: Dr David Whitehouse, BBC News Online Science Editor, BBC News.