Discover the practical illustration of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle at the beach, where observing the behavior of waves can reveal the fundamental trade-offs in measuring physical properties ...

“Love you forever,” I said as I tucked my 5-year-old daughter into bed. “Even after you die?” she said, her blue eyes wide.

If you live along an ocean shoreline anywhere in the world and a tsunami wave is headed your way, there’s only one reasonable ...

A Japanese government panel said Thursday it has slightly raised its estimated probability of a "megaquake" to up to 82 ...

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck off south-western Japan late on Monday, causing small tsunamis in the area but no major ...

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck off southwestern Japan late on Monday, causing small tsunamis in the area but no major ...

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck southwestern Japan late on Monday, causing two small tsunamis in the area but no damage reported.

A 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck southwestern Japan, prompting tsunami advisories in Miyazaki and Kochi Prefectures.

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Twenty minutes later, a tsunami with waves travelling at up to 500 miles per hour crashed into the coastal city of Banda Aceh, on the island of Sumatra. Handout picture of Rachel Harvey ...

Some tsunami scenarios are way worse than the waves from the earthquake off Lisbon, Portugal that hit Florida 269 years ago. Twenty years after the catastrophic Boxing Day Tsunami killed some ...