World on Edge

An expert has warned a gigantic tsunami could hit Britain "at any time", demolishing coastal towns and cities in its path and killing millions. Sir David King, who worked as Chief Scientific Advisor to the British Government for seven...

A newly discovered asteroid is prepared to ruin Valentine's Day in 23 years time. Per NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Sentry system—which tracks potential collisions with celestial objects— a 160-foot-wide space rock dubbed 2023 DW has 10 predicted close approaches to Earth, with the...

For the third time in less than a month, the American continents have become a victim of the extremely volatile ongoing solar storm activity. The first event took place on February 18 when an X2.2-class solar storm struck North...

Our solar system is home to millions of renegade space rocks, and this week three particularly large ones will blaze past Earth. But don't worry – the closest one will still miss our planet by a comfy 2.2 million...

The 6.3-magnitude tremor hit Turkey's southern Hatay province, near the Syrian border, on the evening of February 20, killing at least 6 people and injuring hundreds more. The aftershock was not unexpected following the large earthquake. Aftershocks occur close by...

HONG KONG—Chinese leader Xi Jinping is preparing to visit Moscow for a summit with Russia’s president in the coming months, according to people familiar with the plan, as Vladimir Putin wages war in Ukraine and portrays himself as a standard-bearer against a U.S.-led global order. Beijing...

Russian President Vladimir Putin suspended Moscow’s participation in the last remaining nuclear arms control pact with the United States, announcing the move Tuesday in a bitter speech in which he made clear he would not change his strategy in...

Tremor was so powerful the tectonic plates beneath Ankara have slipped in relation to Syria, experts sayTwo earthquakes, with magnitude 7.8 and 7.5, struck Turkey on Monday Data shows the country has shifted by up to 10 feet...

GAZIANTEP, Turkey — Rescuers in Turkey and Syria were desperately combing the rubble in search of survivors after a powerful earthquake collapsed thousands of buildings, killed more than 3,000 people and raised the specter of a new humanitarian disaster...

By one unique metric, we could approach technological singularity by the end of this decade, if not sooner. A translation company developed a metric, Time to Edit (TTE), to calculate the time it takes for professional human editors to fix AI-generated...