ON AN OCTOBER night in 1989, a 4-year-old girl was shocked awake by a phone ringing and then a scream. She crept out of her bedroom and tiptoed barefoot along the hallway’s clammy vinyl tile, ...

Jim Ward, the beloved voice behind Ratchet & Clank’s Captain Qwark and other iconic roles, has died at the age of 66. The news was confirmed on December 10 by broadcaster Stephanie Miller, who shared ...

Clocks on Mars tick faster by about 477 microseconds each Earth day, a new study suggests. This difference is significantly more than that for our moon, posing potential challenges for future crewed ...

Abstract: Periodically monitoring the pavement cracks is of great importance to many transportation infrastructures. This paper proposed an unsupervised deep-learning-based method to match the cracks ...

Jonah Kaplan is an award-winning journalist who has built a strong reputation for his balanced reporting, thoughtful interviews, and deeply researched coverage of high-impact issues affecting the ...

In the remote Afar region of Ethiopia, a massive crack in the Earth—stretching nearly 60 kilometers—marks the exact place where Africa is beginning to split into two continents. What started with a ...

Cracks in structures are discontinuities that occur due to stress, material degradation, or design flaws, compromising structural integrity. Detecting and analyzing cracks is crucial for assessing ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. In the 21 years since World of Warcraft launched, one feature has been asked about and requested above all others: player housing. Despite being the ...