When the ground shakes violently, entire cities can crumble within minutes. Homes, hospitals, roads, and lives can vanish ...

In my novel, Tilt, the earthquake strikes in the late morning, on a weekday. My protagonist, Annie, 37 weeks pregnant, is ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Emma Pattee. Her debut novel, Tilt, is about a devastating earthquake in the Pacific Northwest, and one pregnant woman's quest to get back home after it.

Greece's tourism jewel, Santorini, welcomed its first cruise ship of the year on Sunday after thousands of small earthquakes in February created a state of emergency, forced thousands to flee and ...

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a stunning backdrop A team of about 150 restorers fuses scientific ...

But Timpf seemed very happy with Friscia and with the path her life had taken. “I never wanted kids before I met him, but meeting him made me feel like it could actually be a cool thing to do.

Paradoxically, the very success of democratic systems may thus also sow the seeds of their potential undoing. This is a phenomenon akin to the paradox of disease prevention, where the success of ...

New surveys report that boys are feeling discouraged in the classroom and are less likely to go to college. Is this true in your experience? By Shannon Doyne How do these journalists craft ...

New data from a constellation of satellites 250 miles above Earth’s surface shows how solar and wind have taken off in recent years. By Mira Rojanasakul Vast quantities of climate and ...

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Emergency preparedness advocates made another try at the Oregon Legislature this spring to raise the standard for new school ...