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Image: The Pokémon Company Nintendo’s quarterly financial report is here, and as usual, the company wraps things up by highlighting a bunch of titles we can look forward to seeing on Switch 2 (and Switch 1) in the coming months. Now, the last one of these that we saw looked super stacked thanks to a bunch of Switch 2 launch …

After 12 millennia of relative inactivity, a geologic fault that stretches across the territory of Yukon, Canada, and Alaska now appears capable of producing a major earthquake, according to a new study. The findings point to an underrecognized source of seismic hazard in northwestern Canada. Scientists previously believed that the Tintina fault, which extends roughly 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) from …

Small recreational vehicle driving the Dempster Highway near Dawson City, Yukon, Canada. Credit – Robert Postma/Design Pics Editorial/Universal Images Group—Getty Images High up in Canada’s Yukon Territory, a seismic gun is being cocked and aimed at the little community of Dawson City—population 1,600. If a new study in the journal Geophysical Research Letters is correct, that town or one of …

Federal agencies US military National security Donald Trump See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link The Pentagon has scheduled its first major test of the multibillion-dollar Golden Dome missile defense system for just before the 2028 election, according to two sources familiar with the matter, setting an aggressive deadline for military officials to prove they can turn President Donald Trump’s …

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A hidden lake beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet unexpectedly drained more than a decade ago, fracturing the ice surface and forming a large crater — an event only recently uncovered by Earth-observing satellites. The massive ice sheet, located in a remote region of northern Greenland, harbors a subglacial lake that appears to have flooded in 2014, releasing 23.8 billion gallons …

The Dodgers have typically been loath to meet steep deadline prices for big-name relievers in the past. But based on the way the market is shaping up, they may be left with no other choice this year. Wednesday’s flurry of moves saw hefty packages exchanged for Jhoan Durán (two top-100 Phillies prospects), Ryan Helsley (two of the Mets’ top-15 prospects) …

New Jersey could get slammed by significant and widespread flash floods on Thursday afternoon and into Friday morning with rainfall totals up to 7 inches possible. “Storms will be capable of producing excessive rainfall rates in excess of 2 inches per hour,” the National Weather Service said early Thursday. “Rainfall amounts of 1-3 inches are generally expected, with localized amounts …

A major fault in the Yukon, Canada, that has been quiet for at least 12,000 years may be capable of giving off earthquakes of at least magnitude 7.5, new research suggests. Based on the amount of strain the Tintina fault has accumulated over the past 2.6 million years, it is now under an amount of stress that could lead to …

Small recreational vehicle driving the Dempster Highway near Dawson City, Yukon, Canada. Credit – Robert Postma/Design Pics Editorial/Universal Images Group—Getty Images High up in Canada’s Yukon Territory, a seismic gun is being cocked and aimed at the little community of Dawson City—population 1,600. If a new study in the journal Geophysical Research Letters is correct, that town or one of …