Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stanford researchers mapped rare mantle earthquakes worldwide, revealing clusters near the Himalayas and the Bering Strait.

A group of scientists has unveiled a revolutionary chip that emits controlled vibrations, called surface acoustic waves (SAWs). Unlike conventional lasers that release light, this "phonon laser" ...

Stanford University researchers have pulled back a curtain on a hidden part of Earth that rarely makes headlines. Their new work maps a strange kind of earthquake that starts deep below the crust, ...