At least four people died and more than forty suffered severe injuries on October 13, 2026, when the Rehman Baba Express derailed near Multan district in Pakistan.
A 14-year-old student used a hunting rifle to shoot and injure the headteacher and a staff member at a middle school in Aubagne, France. The suspect was detained, and authorities launched an inquiry.
A devastating fire swept through Paris’s historic Marché des Enfants Rouges in the Marais district. Over 70 firefighters contained the blaze; minor smoke injuries were treated, but damage is severe.
One person was killed and roughly 20 students and teachers were injured when unexploded ordnance detonated during a school trip in Northern Israel, prompting urgent air evacuations and trail closures.
A tanker near Oman's Sohar anchorage was hit by a drone, forcing an emergency evacuation. Nine of the eleven Indian crew members were rescued, while search efforts continue for two missing sailors.
An Avianca flight to New York made an emergency landing in Miami after severe turbulence injured at least eight people. The plane landed safely, and the injured were taken to hospitals.
A missile strike on Pisochyn near Kharkiv killed 3 people and injured 25 on Sunday evening. The explosion ignited a large fire near homes and shops, prompting war crimes investigations.
Researchers at CU Boulder developed PhotoTat, light-activated tattoo inks that appear under UV light and fade under visible light, remaining switchable for up to 2.2 years.
Scripps researchers found that high-viscosity marine snow transports six times more carbon to the deep ocean than less gooey particles, adding a key variable to carbon cycle models.
A 75-million-year-old snake fossil from Brazil, Tametara mirim, shows burrowing adaptations, revealing that early snakes were already diverse in anatomy and habitat.
Scientists have demonstrated a thorium-229 nuclear clock with a feedback loop, a step toward timekeeping sensitive enough to detect ultralight dark matter's influence on fundamental constants.
Research shows that Earth-like planets could maintain stable orbits within the habitable zones of binary star systems like Alpha Centauri, if their orbital geometry is favorable.
Astronomers traced the oldest fast radio burst yet to a surprisingly small, young dwarf galaxy just 3 billion years after the Big Bang, strengthening the case for magnetars as sources.
Researchers discovered HIP 67522 b, the first planet known to trigger stellar flares through magnetic interaction, a phenomenon that could accelerate atmospheric loss on young worlds.
Two metal sulfide rocks from the Pacific seafloor spontaneously ignited in a laboratory, revealing a nanocrystalline mineral that reacts violently with oxygen and raising safety concerns for deep-sea mining.
The European Solar Telescope has been granted ESFRI Landmark status, recognizing its maturity and strategic importance as it moves toward construction in the Canary Islands.
Studies estimate that hundreds of tons of microplastics settle from the atmosphere annually, reaching farmland, water bodies, and remote regions far from their sources.
Sunshine Coast Council defends its new terraced Mooloolaba seawall against concerns about heat and safety as construction continues ahead of summer.
A new review of three decades of climate fingerprint research concludes that greenhouse gas emissions are driving changes across every component of Earth's climate system.
U.S. forces disabled a Panama-flagged cargo ship that ignored warnings and attempted to bypass the naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, striking its stern to disable propulsion.
A drive-by shooting at a south Seattle nightclub killed a 36-year-old security guard and injured a 27-year-old woman. The suspect vehicle was later found burned.
High-speed video reveals the honey bee stinger uses a double-piston mechanism with collapsible valves to pump venom continuously even after detaching from the bee.
A 45-year-old man in Erie, Pennsylvania, killed eight family members including a pregnant woman and two children before taking his own life, leaving investigators searching for a motive.
A crash at Hickory Hill Road and Raines Road in Memphis left five people dead and three injured, including two police officers who were responding to a call.