An earthquake measuring 3.8 on the Richter scale was felt in parts of Metro Vancouver last September. Vancouver is a seismically active area, so it's always good to be prepared in case of an emergency ...

Although a March 1923 earthquake in El Paso was described as “a slight earth shake” in news reports, one man and his dog died ...

Lake Kariba lies between Zambia and Zimbabwe in southern Africa and is the world's largest man-made reservoir by volume - but it has recently been hit by severe droughts.

A team of engineers and physicists at Southern University of Science and Technology, in China, has created a nickel-based material that behaves as a superconductor above the -233°C (40 K) threshold ...

NASA’s double-asteroid redirection test, launched in 2022, was an actual experiment in space. It sent a rocket to strike an ...

The Standard Model (SM), the main physics framework describing elementary particles and the forces driving them, outlines key patterns in physical interactions referred to as gauge symmetries. One of ...

The Alzheimer's Association revised the diagnostic criteria for Alzheimer disease (AD) and ADRD for clinicians in primary and specialty care.

Greece has a long history of powerful earthquakes, with some of the most devastating tremors causing widespread destruction ...

The world is watching as NASA tweaks the odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 will hit Earth. But how threatening is YR4, and how does ...