Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Let’s kick off the week with a quick roundup of some science news you may have missed. First, ...

Share on Pinterest As passengers aboard a cruise ship linked to a deadly hantavirus outbreak return to their home countries, experts say the risk of another pandemic remains low. Chris McGrath/Getty ...

A tsunami that struck an Alaskan fjord in 2025 sloshed higher than the height of the top floor of One World Trade Center in New York, new research shows. The study, published May 6 in the journal ...

When a cargo ship ripped open an oil tanker in the North Sea, the tanker stayed afloat, and that was no accident. Here's the math and engineering baked into every modern ship that makes survival after ...

At 5:26 am local time on August 10, 2025, a massive wedge of rock with a volume of at least 63.5 million cubic meters detached from a mountain above Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord. The falling rock ...

Eighteen Americans who were aboard the cruise ship at the center of the deadly hantavirus outbreak are being monitored at health facilities in the United States on Tuesday. One passenger is at a ...

The Ukrainian capital endured a barrage of strikes over the weekend, including ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and ...

A Silversea Cruises ship helped rescue a man from a disabled sailing vessel nearly 500 miles off the coast of Oregon.