Stories published in 2021

News articles classified as Stories published in 2021

Why warming makes weather less predictable

A Stanford University study shows chaos reigns earlier in midlatitude weather models as temperatures rise. The result? Climate change could be shifting the limits of weather predictability and pushing reliable 10-day forecasts out of reach.

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An economics major delves into global mysteries

For Karina Thiagarajan, becoming a Stanford student is the latest milestone in a life journey that began in an orphanage in Mumbai, India, and continued in Singapore after she was adopted by an Indian family.

Campus trees depict evolutionary concepts

More than a century of attentive groundskeeping has turned the Stanford campus into a museum of mathematical phylogenetics, says Noah Rosenberg, creator of the Stanford X-Tree Project.