News

  1. Science & Society

    There’s a new term for attempting to own the wind: ventography

    Nations established territorial claims underground to access oil and gas. Now they are expanding those claims upward to snag the wind.

    By Sujata Gupta
  2. Earth

    What leads rivers to suddenly change course?

    An analysis of satellite data could help predict where rivers will change their course and where their rerouted flows will go.

    By Nikk Ogasa
  3. Paleontology

    The largest arthropod to ever live finally has a head 

    Fossils of an extinct giant millipede reveal new details about the arthropod’s anatomy.

    By Jason Bittel
  4. Astronomy

    Runaway stars could influence the cosmos far past their home galaxies

    Dozens of stars fleeing a neighbor of the Milky Way suggest these escapees could have an outsized influence on their cosmic surroundings.