(THE CONVERSATION) Nicknamed “Galloping Gertie” for its tendency to bend and undulate, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge had just opened to traffic on July 1, 1940. In a now infamous failure, in the face of ...

Climate scientists are confronting a hard truth: some of the most widely used models are struggling to keep up with the pace and texture of real‑world warming. The physics at their core remains sound, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When engineers design things, they use models to predict how the things will work in the natural world. But all models have ...

Zachary del Rosario receives funding from the National Science Foundation and Toyota Research Institute. Nicknamed “Galloping Gertie” for its tendency to bend and undulate, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge ...