If you’re one of the roughly 1.6 million people who took a cruise in Alaska last year, chances are you sailed through the ...

For the first time, scientists have watched a subduction zone literally fall apart beneath the ocean floor. Using advanced ...

In Japan, the everyday sounds of life can suddenly be interrupted by a shrill beeping noise and text flashing across your TV screen, but this is not a technical glitch. It is a public alert warning ...

Analysis of video footage reveals how wave changed as it travelled over mud-rich rice paddies, exerting more force It is just over 15 years since the devastating Tohoku earthquake and tsunami struck ...

The next 10 years are poised to be the most transformative decade yet in the space industry. A 2024 World Economic Forum report forecasts that the space-related economy will grow 9% per year, reaching ...

Scientists can now use SWOT to improve tsunami models. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Late on July 29, 2025, the Earth's crust ...

A massive seven-year project exploring 3,900 social-science papers has ended with a disturbing finding: researchers could replicate the results of only half of the studies that they tested 1. The ...

SWOT observations of the tsunami wave field offshore Kamchatka about one hour after the earthquake covering the two parallel diagonal lines cutting across the image. The measurements allowed the ...

About 1 hour after the earthquake, SWOT captured the offshore tsunami wave field near Kamchatka shown as two red–blue measurement swaths. These data constrained the inferred initial tsunami ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. [CLIP: The spaceship Hail Mary’s operating system (played by Priya Kansara) speaks in ...

As an astrophysicist, my world revolves around the wonders of space and the mysteries of the universe. This means I can be a tough critic of science fiction books and films that explore these topics.