From ancient legends to modern-day coastal warnings, tsunamis have long captured human fear and fascination. But what really triggers these monstrous sea waves? Can they be predicted? And how can we ...

A lurch in the Earth’s tectonic plates can wreak havoc at any time. How do scientists measure quakes, and are we doing enough to prepare?

Roughly 5.3 million years ago, our planet experienced a cataclysm unlike anything in human memory: a deluge so immense and ...

A bold new theory reimagines the NAA as a "Rayleigh–Taylor instability"—a geological term for when heavy, cold rock begins to ...