A magnitude 6.8 earthquake that rocked the bottom of the South Island struck in a seismic environment poorly understood by scientists – but which poses a major tsunami hazard. The 2.43pm quake hit ...

Apple iPhones could cost as much as a car if US President Donald Trump persists with his “reciprocal” tariffs on Chinese ...

The short-term impacts of AI have been much exaggerated everywhere. Meanwhile, the long-term impact remains dramatically ...

Researchers are combining data on earthquake shaking intensity, crowdsourced traffic data from the Waze navigation app and ...

Beneath the steaming geysers and bubbling mud pots of Yellowstone National Park lies one of the world's most closely watched volcanic systems. Now a ...

Beneath Yellowstone lies a magma reservoir, pulsing with molten and superheated rock and exsolved gases. Scientists have long ...

A magnitude 7.7 earthquake and a subsequent 6.7 aftershock struck near Mandalay, Burma, causing widespread damage and shaking buildings as far as Bangkok. Satellite imagery from NASA and the European ...