Doomsday by solar flare? Let's ask one of Australia’s most fabulous science communicators – Dr Alice Williamson - who also has intel on Switzerland's secret bunkers!

In the late 90s my friend Michelle and I sat in a darkened Brisbane cinema totally enthralled by disaster film Dante’s Peak. Apart from the glory of Pierce Brosnan, the thought that mother nature could annihilate life on Earth by volcanic eruption was mesmerising.