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One lesson from Hurricane Helene that flooded North Carolina last fall is that weather events will be increasingly unpredictable and extreme as the world feels the heat from climate change. That’s why Claire Masteller’s approach to studying river systems is about “embracing the variability and messiness of the natural world,” she says.

Astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan will deliver the 2025 McDonnell Distinguished Lectures where she will discuss the formation of black holes and exciting discoveries made with the James Webb Space Telescope.

Thunderstorms that swept the central US in 2022 were unprecedented, but their extreme precipitation may not be that rare — especially with global warming

New calculations by Arts & Sciences researchers suggest surprising geology beneath Venus’s surface.

For over 25 years, Washington University (WashU) has received funding from NASA to build "The Analyst's Notebook," a multimedia knowledge discovery tool.