The magnitude 7.7 earthquake was powerful, shallow and in a heavily populated region with vulnerable buildings.

Wojciech Brylinski was analyzing data from the NA61/SHINE collaboration at CERN for his thesis when he noticed an unexpected ...

Earthquakes are relatively common in Myanmar, where six strong quakes of 7.0 magnitude or more struck between 1930 and 1956 ...

The seismic event highlights Myanmar’s vulnerability to earthquakes, largely due to its location along the Sagaing Fault, a major tectonic boundary between the Indian Plate and the Burma microplate.

Researchers in Western Australia have found the remnants of a nearly 3.5-billion-year-old impact crater – making it the oldest worldwide. This groundbreaking discovery sheds new light on Earth's early ...

The “urgent safety recommendation” is part of the NTSB’s preliminary report on the midair collision between a passenger jet and a US Army helicopter in which 67 people were killed in the ...

London — The Monday collision between a cargo ship and an oil tanker in the North Sea "has a high risk of being an environmental disaster in really important protected areas," Naomi Tilley, Oil ...

Singapore’s electoral map has been redrawn, with only five GRCs and four SMCs unchanged from the last election. The EBRC announced on 11 March three new GRCs and six new SMCs, increasing ...

Much is still unclear about this collision between an oil tanker and a container ship in the North Sea. We know it will impact the environment, but how badly depends on at least three things, and ...

A oil tanker which caught fire off the coast of East Yorkshire after a collision with a cargo vessel was loaded with US military jet fuel. US tanker Stena Immaculate was hit on Monday morning by ...

At ultracold temperatures, interatomic collisions are relatively simple, and their outcome can be controlled using a magnetic field. However, research by scientists led by Prof. Michal Tomza from ...

THIS book gives a very complete account of the quantum theory of collisions. In an introductory chapter, some theorems of wave mechanics are stated. The following four chapters are devoted to such ...