Minor quakes can disrupt natural tectonic patterns deep underground and change stress landscape, new study finds.

In recent days, several Asian countries have been experiencing mild tremors of earthquakes continuously. Coincidentally, all ...

Can an egg fall better if dropped sideway or ends first? The seemingly silly question has inspired a revolutionary leap by ...

A 4.1 magnitude earthquake surprised East Tennessee, raising questions about dogs' ability to sense seismic activity.

Here’s what we can glean from the recent earthquake activity felt in Kentucky, with insights from Carpenter, who helped monitor it from the Kentucky Geological Survey at UK. An earthquake is typically ...

The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog contends that curiosity-driven research helps us understand the world and could lead to unexpected benefits.

Mississippi State Professor of Physics Dipangkar Dutta is a principal investigator on a groundbreaking experiment -- revealing "symmetry" in physics doesn't always behave as scientists once believed - ...

Smithsonian researchers trekked to a remote site in northern Canada to collect four-billion-year-old rock samples that could ...

On March 28, 2025, a catastrophic earthquake of magnitude 7.7 struck central Myanmar, marking the most devastating seismic event in the region since ...