SEOUL – As Europe sweats through record-breaking temperatures, Asian makers of air-conditioners, like South Korea’s Samsung Electronics, China’s Midea and Japan’s Mitsubishi Electric, are enjoying a ...

We expected a big impact, but the numbers still surprised us: While heat waves, which we defined as three or more consecutive days with temperatures in the top tenth of hottest days, accounted for ...

When heat waves hit the Western United States, the risk of wildfires quickly rises. The prolonged heat dries out vegetation, but that’s only part of the cause – heat waves also play other roles in ...

Flat basins are favoured places to build cities. But seismic waves can get trapped in these basins, putting cities at risk ...

Follow our live coverage here. SINGAPORE – Countries standing up for freedom of navigation in international waterways like the Strait of Hormuz are sending “the right message”, said the head of the UN ...

I filmed this quick clip while surfing the standing wave in Limerick, right in the heart of the city. The river was pumping, so I jumped in my blue kayak and played on the rapid with the colourful ...

Data is the new oil, and if you know what you’re doing with it, the job opportunities will be there for you in 2026. Throughout 2025, the most popular inbound ask for help I got was for help with data ...

A team of engineers has made major strides in generating the tiniest earthquakes imaginable. The team’s device, known as a surface acoustic wave phonon laser, could one day help scientists make more ...

On a recent sunny morning in a channel at the Port of Los Angeles, seven blue steel structures that look like small boats are lowered into the ocean one by one. Attached to an unused wharf on a site ...

I have been a Scientific American subscriber since I was 12 years old. I think if I could ask that kid if he expected to see his name in the magazine one day, he’d say yes, but he would be surprised ...

Abstract: A standing-wave model based on ldquocoldrdquo cavity mode expansion is proposed and presented for simulation of distributed feedback (DFB) semiconductor lasers. The model is validated ...