Fact Book

The Ocean's Sound Highway: How a Whale Call Can Travel Vast Distances Underwater sound behaves differently from sound moving through air...

How a Solar Storm Can Make GPS Less Accurate Without Damaging Your Phone Your phone may be sitting perfectly still while its GPS position se...

Sinkholes Explained: What Happens Underground Before the Surface Collapses A street can look ordinary until a section of ground suddenly giv...

San Francisco 1906: The Earthquake Was Only the Beginning How can a devastating earthquake last less than a minute, yet leave a city burn...

Volcanic Ash and Aircraft: Why a Cloud of Rock Can Threaten Jet Engines At cruising altitude, an airborne ash cloud may look deceptively sim...

Rogue Waves: Why the Ocean Can Suddenly Build a Wall of Water A ship can be surrounded by ordinary-looking swells and then meet one towering...

Editorial illustration: the opening artwork is AI-generated and is not a photograph of the actual 2015 flight. On February 4, 2015, TransA...

Cover image: AI-generated conceptual illustration. Not a historical photograph or accurate reconstruction of New Orleans in 2005. Explore th...

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished on 8 March 2014 while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 passengers and crew aboard. Radar...

On April 11, 1970, NASA launched Apollo 13, its third attempt to land astronauts on the Moon. The planned mission took an unexpected turn wh...