14-12-09 Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is a peculiar place. Unlike any other moon, it has a dense atmosphere. It has rivers and lakes made up of components of natural gas, such as ethane and methane. It also has windswept dunes that are hundreds of yards hig...

14-11-24 Relic Patricia Hooper Here is a bird's breastbone, the keel of a ship scrubbed clean of its cargo and rigging, its rib cage laid bare in this harbor of grasses. Each morning the sun finds it and bleaches it into a basket the snail sleeps in, no long...

14-11-20 One might say the standard umbrella is already perfectly designed -- compact, resistant to all but very strong winds, and it generally keeps your top half dry. A new umbrella design by Je Sung Park and Woo Jung Kwon aims to not only change the umbre...

14-09-29 Magpies are clever birds. At the beginning of every spring it can predict the weather for the whole year. If this year will be windy, it will move its nest from tall trees to a low crotch of a tree. By doing so it keeps the nest away from the threat...

13-12-05 Long, long ago, there lived upon a little island a Greek king named Ulysses. One time Ulysses sailed far away across the sea to fight for his country, and for ten long years he was away from his beautiful wife and his little son. At last the Greeks...

12-10-30 The forest was large and thickly overgrown with all kinds of leaf-bearing trees. Usually, it is cold this time of year and it even happens that it snow, but this November was relatively warm. You might have thought it was summer except that the whol...

12-09-11 There is enough energy available in winds to meet all of the world's demand. Atmospheric turbines that convert steadier and faster high-altitude winds into energy could generate even more power than ground- and ocean-based units. New research from C...

12-08-22 Fierce galactic winds powered by an intense burst of star formation may blow gas right out of massive galaxies, shutting down their ability to make new stars. Sifting through images and data from three telescopes, a team of astronomers found 29 obje...

10-09-16 Hurricane Igor is a monster hurricane in terms of strength and size. To get a perspective on its size, it is the same distance from one end of the storm to the other as it is from Boston, Mass. to Richmond, Va., some 550 miles. That's a 10-hour driv...

10-08-03 Bad news, Miami. Of all Florida's major population centers, the city is the most vulnerable to strong hurricane winds, according to Florida State University researchers who developed a new tool to estimate the frequency of extreme hurricane winds at...