1+ week, 12+ hour ago  (245+ words) According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), locals in Nye County, Nevada were shook Sunday morning by a magnitude 4.3 earthquake. Occurring in rural areas of Nevada, communities near Tonopali were rattled by the moderate earthquake. There's an 8% chance that,…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (519+ words) Ice creams, frozen desserts and super-chilled sodas take on a new appeal in sticky summer heat. As climate change drives hotter temperatures, Americans are consuming more and more of them, new research finds, with worrying health consequences. There is plenty…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago  (884+ words) Thanks to a closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera mounted on a driveway, researchers captured the exact moment the land cracked open and surged past itself. That footage, only 26 seconds long, revealed something never directly seen'how the Earth's surface moves during a…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago  (454+ words) It was a groundbreaking discovery. Scientists have found previously concealed fault lines along California's north coast, sparking concerns that we could be drastically underestimating the earthquake risk in the region, per a seismic study published in the journal "Science." "If…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago  (583+ words) Japan is currently assessing the aftermath of a powerful 7.5 magnitude earthquake that struck late on Tuesday night, causing injuries, minor damage, and a tsunami along its Pacific coast. Authorities are cautioning residents about the potential for aftershocks as emergency teams…...

11+ mon, 3+ week ago  (247+ words) While most estimates place the current human population at around 8.2 billion, a new study suggests we might be vastly underrepresenting rural areas. By analyzing 300 rural dam projects across 35 countries, researchers from Aalto University in Finland found discrepancies among these independent…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (224+ words) Over 4 billion years ago, an asteroid called Bennu was drifting through the solar system. Three years ago, NASA brought 121.6 grams of that space rock back to Earth. Scientists wanted to see if the sample contained clues about how life began....

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (293+ words) Triggered by an intense geomagnetic storm, the northern lights made a rare visit to the Southland on Tuesday night, painting the skies above the Angeles National Forest in dazzling pink and purple hues. Although the aurora borealis is typically confined…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago  (928+ words) A few teeth, smaller than a grain of rice, are changing the map of your earliest primate relatives. They come from a creature called Purgatorius, a tiny tree-dwelling mammal that lived about 66 million years ago, right after the dinosaurs vanished....

3+ day, 10+ hour ago  (465+ words) Dormant volcanoes across the Earth could become more active and erupt more violently as the climate crisis accelerates glacier retreat, scientists warn in a new study. The research, presented on Tuesday at the Goldschmidt Conference in Prague, assessed six volcanoes…...