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Trucks

12 Ford trucks from the 1948 F-1 to the electric Lightning

Few nameplates have lasted as long as Ford’s F-Series, which has changed shape, engines and even power source across generations. Along the way it picked up new badges, bold trims and technical firsts that shaped the pickup market. Here are twelve landmark stops on the road from the first postwar truck to the electric era. […]

By Kade Winslow

Science

A USGS fact sheet puts New Madrid’s odds of a magnitude 6 quake at 25% to 40% in 50 years

By BeckhamLangford

Science

Yellowstone recorded 77 earthquakes in September, the largest a magnitude 3.4

By BeckhamLangford

12 cars that dragged their automakers back from ruin, including Chrysler’s $1.5 billion K-car bet

By Kade Winslow

Storms could dump 2 to 4 inches of rain from south-central Kansas to Texas’ Big Bend

By Everett Sloane

Isaias left at least four dead and nearly 900,000 without power after a Destin landfall

By Everett Sloane

12 diesel cars Americans bought before Dieselgate, from a 50-mpg Isuzu to GM’s lawsuit-plagued V8

By Kade Winslow

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Science

A USGS fact sheet puts New Madrid’s odds of a magnitude 6 quake at 25% to 40% in 50 years

By BeckhamLangford

Science

Yellowstone recorded 77 earthquakes in September, the largest a magnitude 3.4

By BeckhamLangford

Science

A 60-centimeter marine reptile fossil from China kept its stomach, liver and intestines

By BeckhamLangford

Science

Two giant Australian stick insects turned out to be five, and one lays eggs with a lid

By BeckhamLangford

Technology

Roman harbor concrete healed itself and has lasted 2,000 years in seawater

By Cassian Holt

Technology

A recall pulls 31,000 fire-spray cans that can burst apart in the middle of a fire

By Cassian Holt

Technology

Microsoft admits its September Windows 11 update is breaking backups and blocking some PCs from booting

By Cassian Holt

Military

Declassified video shows the 50-hour hunt for two airmen down in Iran

By Rowan Calder

Military

Two former airmen drew 111 and 78 months for diverting a $1.68 million wire

By Kade Winslow

Military

A postcard offering extra veterans benefits through a ‘Veterans Savings Program’ is a scam, the FTC warns

By Rowan Calder

AI

Google put AI chips in orbit to see whether a data center can survive up there

By Dorian Maddox

AI

A light-based test spotted AI-made videos 97.79% of the time on Celeb-DF face swaps, and Veo-3 fakes 94.8% of the time

By Dorian Maddox

AI

Meta says its scam-warning campaign reached more than 303 million people in 18 markets

By Dorian Maddox

AI

Meta says it caught over 97% of 33.2 million pieces of child-exploitation content before anyone reported them

By Dorian Maddox

Transportation

A software error can dim the low beams on 30 Thomas Built school buses

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

A solar controller can push 24 volts into 16,128 Grand Design Reflection trailers wired for 12

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

4,206 Honda VT1300CX and VT750 motorcycles can stall from a defective fuel pump

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

A loosening roll pin can let 24,656 Roadmaster tow bars separate from the hitch

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

A seat-post bolt can break on $9,000 Urban Arrow cargo bikes

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

Chicago is putting a battery train on a commuter line that runs 45 to 65 miles between charges

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

A seizing rocker arm broke a rider’s bone, and Triumph recalled 1,560 race bikes

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

11 rapid-transit systems split America’s subway ridership, and New York alone takes 1.2 billion of the annual trips

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

11 legendary long-distance trains you can still ride, including a four-night, 2,775-mile crossing of Canada

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

Riding a rail car to check the tracks has killed 14 workers since 2020

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

A pedestrian’s death on the tracks in Sharon adds to 1,317 rail trespassing cases last year

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

Can-Am recalls 14,014 three-wheelers and motorcycles after their instrument screens go blank

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

Ford recall covers more than 226,000 vehicles; what owners should verify next

By Cassian Holt

Transportation

10 motorcycles insurance data marks as the costliest to crash and the deadliest to ride

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

9 of the tallest mountains in North America

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

Zoox recalled robotaxi software after one vehicle became confused by heavy smoke

By Rowan Calder

Energy & Climate

The Energy Department is sending $96 million to 67 early-career scientists in 26 states

By Everett Sloane

Energy & Climate

The Pacific patch that drives El Nino hit 29.70C, hotter than in 1982, 1997 or 2015

By Everett Sloane

Energy & Climate

Operators evacuated 130 Gulf platforms and rigs and shut in about 1.3 million barrels a day for Isaias

By Everett Sloane

Energy & Climate

A fourth emergency order keeps a Colorado coal plant open past its 2025 retirement

By Everett Sloane

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