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Extreme Weather

Alaska’s Tracy Arm landslide sent a tsunami 1,580 feet up a mountain, and warning signs came at least a day before

When a mountainside above Alaska’s Tracy Arm collapsed into the fjord on Aug. 10, 2025, the resulting tsunami ran 1,580 feet (481 meters) up the opposite wall, making it the second-highest tsunami in recorded history. A study in Science has now documented the warning signs that preceded the collapse, and the authors say those signs […]

By Alexander Clark

Extreme Weather

Satellite radar shows a volcano near 2 million people has two separate magma sources

By Alexander Clark

Cars

11 cars rock and roll sang about, from the Oldsmobile in the first rock song to a GTO that hit No. 4

By Alexander Clark

11 Route 66 landmarks for the highway’s 100th birthday, from an 80-foot blue whale to the Gateway Arch

By Alexander Clark

9 Hondas and Volvos already on the road that are getting Google’s Gemini AI, some from 2020

By Alexander Clark

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake off Vanuatu carried a USGS tsunami flag

By Alexander Clark

10 SUVs and pickups iSeeCars ranks for snow, from an 8.9-inch Land Cruiser to a 13.1-inch Bronco

By Alexander Clark

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Science

Microplastics in water make their own damaging radicals, and the smaller the fragment the more it produces

By BeckhamLangford

Science

A fossil left in a museum drawer since 1924 turned out to be Europe’s first known megaraptoran

By BeckhamLangford

Science

Two niobium-titanium alloys stayed tough at minus 253 Celsius, where ordinary metals turn glassy and snap

By BeckhamLangford

Science

A helicopter survey mapped the plumbing under Old Faithful and Grand Prismatic as deep as two miles

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

Workers who fear AI will take their jobs are likelier to justify slacking off, and the effect was stronger in finance and insurance

By Dorian Maddox

AI

OpenAI pushed GPT-6 to every ChatGPT user, with search answers starting 44% sooner

By Dorian Maddox

AI

Apple’s $299 Apple TV 4K brings a beta Siri AI when it hits stores Nov. 13

By Dorian Maddox

AI

Skoda’s head of exterior design says AI now threatens human car stylists’ jobs

By Dorian Maddox

Transportation

LiveWire will show its biggest electric motorcycle lineup yet in Milan next month

By Alexander Clark

Transportation

Unprotected charging wire can overheat on 391 K.Z. SportTrek fifth-wheel trailers

By Alexander Clark

Transportation

738 Forest River Cedar Creek trailers have a slide switch wired without overcurrent protection

By Alexander Clark

Transportation

4,630 BMW R 18 motorcycles are recalled because a failing seal can let a gear control unit overheat and raise fire risk

By Alexander Clark

Transportation

4,435 RV power cords have a fuse that may not protect the circuit

By Alexander Clark

Transportation

A federal placard on 75 motorhomes tells owners to overinflate their tires

By Alexander Clark

Transportation

Software left the low beams too dim on 30 new school buses

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

A travel-trailer griddle can be folded away with the gas line still connected

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

Emergency-exit labels on 1,236 Volvo coaches never said how to open the door

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

Honda recalled 4,206 cruisers whose fuel pumps can quit and stall the bike

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

A solar controller that picks 24 volts for 12-volt wiring raises the fire risk in 16,128 trailers

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

A loose roll pin can let 24,656 Roadmaster tow bars release the car behind an RV

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

Water in a steering harness can disable power steering on 265,512 Ram ProMaster vans

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

A weak fuse raises the fire risk in 4,435 Lippert seat power cords

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

12 Amtrak long-distance trains still rolling, one of them a 65-hour, 2,728-mile Texas Eagle run

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

Lectric’s new XPress Lite e-bike weighs 46 pounds and sells for $1,099

By Kade Winslow

Energy & Climate

The borrowed emergency crude comes back in 2027 with extra barrels on top

By Alexander Clark

Energy & Climate

Seven of 16 climate vital signs hit record extremes, and carbon dioxide passed 428 parts per million in May

By Everett Sloane

Energy & Climate

The Energy Department is lending up to 4 million barrels of emergency crude to ExxonMobil and BP America

By Everett Sloane

Energy & Climate

American propane exports hit a record 2.1 million barrels a day in April

By Kade Winslow

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