A video of scientists dropping ice into a really deep hole has gone viral because of the wobbly cartoon-spaceship sound the falling ice makes. Princeton University geochemist John Andrew Higgins ...

Radar is quite spectacular in telling us exactly where rain is falling by pinging precipitation with radio waves! Our weather radar can determine more than just a storm’s location, but its movement as ...

An upgrade in weather detection and prediction was set in motion on October 18, 1995 when The National Weather Service in Sioux Falls commissioned a new Doppler Radar. It was hailed as a milestone for ...

The Doppler Effect, simply stated, is the frequency of sound, light, or other waves as the source and observer move toward (or away from) each other. While the effect is omnipresent, it’s not ...