Why do some systems collapse suddenly after what seems like a minor disturbance? A single transmission line failure can cascade into widespread blackouts. A delayed shipment can ripple through a ...

The 2026 Winter Olympics are unfolding in Milan and Cortina, and we can’t look away: We’re watching athletes fly down mountains on skis and glide — sometimes slipping and falling — on the ice. Vikram ...

Explosions can damage brain cells and blood vessels even when scans look normal, leaving lasting symptoms that are often missed.

A massive star 2.5 million light-years away simply vanished — and astronomers now know why. Instead of exploding in a supernova, it quietly collapsed into a black hole, shedding its outer layers in a ...

They ask us to believe, for example, that the world we experience is fundamentally divided from the subatomic realm it’s built from. Or that there is a wild proliferation of parallel universes, or ...

Coastal regions are increasingly exposed to low-frequency and long-period waves driven by climate change, sea-level rise, and intensifying extreme events, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Much of a Sicilian town is teetering on the edge of a cliff after heavy rain from Cyclone Harry caused a landslide. The landslide ...

The biggest harbinger that things were about to fall apart in Iran didn’t come from the thwarted anger of the country’s opposition or the frustrated hopes of young people hungry for more personal ...

Iran’s regime is facing one of the most widespread anti-government movements in decades, as fiery demonstrations continue to spread nationwide. Exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, whose father was the ...

The Thwaites Glacier, an enormous shelf of ice in the Antarctic, has been given the ominous nickname of the “Doomsday Glacier” — because if it were to change collapse, it could have profound ...

Quantum mechanics suggests that reality may not be singular — what we call “the universe” could be one branch of countless alternatives. Each quantum event may split reality, creating different ...