The MD-11's high landing speed is unusual among modern widebody airliners and it makes the aircraft more difficult to land.

Michigan got off to a windy start to the week with 60 mph gusts in one location. See where winds were strongest.

The world’s largest wind-powered, industrial-scale, roll on/roll off vessel Neoliner Origin has returned for its second visit ...

BYU Hawaiʻi’s Iosepa voyaging canoe crew teaches Kapālama Elementary School fourth-graders to raise the pe‘a (sail) during ...

Strong winds from a clipper system heading for Michigan are expected to create monster waves on the Great Lakes this week. The waters of Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Superior and Lake Erie are ...

With a gust in Hurricane Melissa setting a record for peak gust measured by a specialized instrument dropped into the eye of a hurricane – 252 mph – you might be wondering what the fastest wind speeds ...

Hurricane Melissa's wind gusts reached a record-breaking speed shortly before the storm made landfall in the Caribbean last month, according to data recorded during the deadly event. The data was ...

Hurricane Melissa flooded southwestern Haiti before slamming into Jamaica as a Cat 5 hurricane, with sustained winds of 185 mph and stronger gusts.

Calculating wind chill can help people better prepare for harsh, outdoor conditions. Cold weather can cause hypothermia, when the body’s temperature falls below 95°F, or frostbite, when body tissue ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1876, Peter Guthrie Tait set out to measure what he called the “beknottedness” of knots. The Scottish mathematician, whose research ...

A galleon and a tanker ship in a river - iwciagr/Shutterstock Imagine living sometime around the early 1600s. You're standing on the deck of a wooden ship. The wind's biting, the sky's endless. And ...