Since 1988, this meteorological breakthrough has nearly doubled tornado warning times, giving communities crucial minutes to ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Imagine you're at the train station, waiting to catch the northbound train. It's a quiet ...

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 ...

The inverse Doppler effect has been observed for the first time at optical wavelengths The Doppler effect is common in everyday life—the sound of a motor car has a higher frequency as it approaches ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. There are many laws that govern the natural world: the laws of polarity, gravity, relativity ...

Everyone has experienced the Doppler effect: an ambulance's siren has a higher pitch as it approaches you, and a lower pitch when moving away. Now imagine that the pitch goes down as the ambulance ...

Every year, our planet makes one full trip around the Sun. And while that means we’re already moving at breakneck speeds, we’re about to ramp that speed up. Like, way up! Let’s turn Earth into a ...