You could crawl in there and catch a nap. We named it “the Happy Place,” and when someone was sleeping, we’d put stick-’em ...

The twin reactors of Hinkley Point C in Somerset will form the first nuclear power plant built in the UK for 30 years.

Japan will switch the world's largest nuclear power plant back on next week, after a glitch with an alarm forced the suspension of its first restart since the 2011 Fukushima ...

A research team from University of Tsukuba and collaborating institutions has clarified why M9-class megathrust earthquakes recur off the Kamchatka Peninsula with an unusually short cycle of 73 years.

For decades, researchers thought that an October 1843 earthquake on the small Greek island of Chalke caused a powerful tsunami and led to the deaths of as many as 600 people. But a new analysis of ...

Jan. 17 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1871, Andrew Hallidie received a patent for a cable car system that went into service in San Francisco in 1873. In 1893, Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii was ...

Japan is on alert after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck its northern regions late on Monday, prompting tsunami warnings and a rare government advisory about the possibility of a “megaquake” over the ...

Thousands stranded at Hokkaido's New Chitose Airport after record snowfall hits northern Japan, canceling 90+ flights and ...

The utility that operates the Fukushima plant that melted down in 2011 restarted a reactor at the world’s largest nuclear ...

PORT ANGELES — A tsunami rarely arrives as a single cinematic wall of water rolling toward shore like a towering wave in a disaster film. Instead, it comes in waves — sometimes for hours — with ...

Debris and mud cover a city in Japan flattened by a massive tsunami in March 2011, caused by the energy released by a ...