While Sid plays with his flashlight, he wonders exactly how lights work. At school, Teacher Susie explains to Sid and his friends that all lights need some kind of electricity to work, whether it ...

At six, standing on tiptoes behind a podium at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Anirudh Rao explained how he planned to “control wind.” The idea, he told the amused audience, came from Lord ...

A wind chill only comes into play when the temperature is below 50 degrees and the wind is more than three miles per hour. Essentially, the colder the temperatures and the stronger the wind, the ...

"Ultimately, this work may help scientists better predict the impact of space weather across the solar system on longer ...

Frank Herbert’s Dune popularized windtraps as devices that harvest moisture from desert air, but real ancient Iran developed ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year Joe Spring, ...

A mother and daughter are urging parents to keep their children off the roads as extreme winds are expected to sweep across ...

This week’s science roundup covers 2025’s near-record heat, a new mpox strain and fresh clues about why hobbits vanished 50,000 years ago. Journalist Karen Hao unpacks the rise of AI “empires,” their ...

Students at St. Mary's Episcopal in Memphis took on a big project: creating a design for Taylor Swift's wedding dress. See ...

A powerful system will arrive Thursday night into Friday morning, bringing with it strong wind and drenching rain. We will start to see scattered showers late Thursday night, likely by 10 or 11. This ...

Fog occurs naturally in the atmosphere, and several sciences explain its formation. In Florida, fog can form at any time of ...

Wind turbines work properly in cold weather, contrary to social media posts that claim they fail when temperatures drop.