a car sits at an angle on a bridge roadway at the edge of a collapsed section with a cargo ship in the background

The MV Dali, a 984-foot, 100,000-ton cargo ship, rammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge[1] when leaving Baltimore harbor on March 26, 2024, causing a portion of the bridge to collapse.

In an interview, University of Michigan civil engineer Sherif El-Tawil

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Humans are very good at spotting patterns[1], or repeating features people can recognize. For instance, ancient Polynesians navigated across the Pacific by recognizing many patterns[2], from the stars’ constellations to more subtle ones such as the directions

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Since its astronomical rise in popularity[1] during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdowns, TikTok has played an increasing role in all aspects of American life, including politics, from the White House briefing key TikTok creators[2] on the war in Ukraine to Joe

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Many people in the U.S. will have an opportunity to witness nearly four minutes of a total solar eclipse[1] on Monday, April 8, 2024, as it moves from southern Texas to Maine. But in the U.S., over 7 million people are blind or visually impaired[2] and

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Some commonly recommended tactics for managing anger, including hitting a punching bag, jogging and cycling, aren’t effective at helping people cool off. That’s the key takeaway of our new review of 154 studies[1] that looked at how activities that

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