Kerry Breen is a news editor at CBSNews.com. A graduate of New York University's Arthur L. Carter School of Journalism, she previously worked at NBC News' TODAY Digital. She covers current events, ...

April 26, 2025, marks the 125th birthday of Cincinnati native Charles Richter, the inventor of the Richter Scale. The seismologist, aka Earth scientist, invented the critical measurement tool to help ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - In scientific fields, numbers are everywhere. Knowing what those numbers mean is easier to understand in some cases, and in other cases, not so much. An earthquake's magnitude, on ...