UC Berkeley political scientist Marika Landau-Wells says there are ways to help us avoid overreacting to false alarms without missing real threats.

A chilling warning has rippled through Japan, a nation all too familiar with the earth’s raw power. The Japanese government ...

The latest jobs figures showed US employers added 147,000 jobs last month, exceeding estimates, while the unemployment rate ...

O f all the dangers in the world, natural disasters seem like the worst. Tsunamis, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other violent ...

Despite advances in tectonic science, earthquakes can’t be predicted. But perhaps there’s something to be said for keeping ...

A Japanese manga printed in the 1990s appears to have made another scarily accurate prediction. Just two days before the ...

More than 1,000 tremors with a seismic intensity of 1 or above on the Japanese scale have been detected around the island chain between June 21 and July 3 ...

Over 900 earthquakes have shaken Japan’s Tokara Islands in two weeks, raising fears of a major natural disaster. Experts and locals are alarmed, especially after a prophecy predicted a tsunami or a ...

The Swiss authorities have called on people to be vigilant against Japanese beetles. Anyone who finds a suspicious beetle ...

The early warning signs of an unhealthy relationship are not always obvious, especially to teens. That’s why we’re asking for ...