Bucknell University Professor Katelyn Allers, physics & astronomy, is publishing the first measurement of atmospheric wind speed outside the solar system using a new technique she developed. Her study ...

Drones and similar small unmanned aerial vehicles (sUAVs) have seen a massive surge in popularity over the past few years owing to their innovative applications, such as crop monitoring, search and ...

Using a combination of the Very Large Array (VLA)— a cluster of 28 radio telescopes located in New Mexico — and NASA’s Spitzer space telescope, astronomers have made the first measurement of wind ...

Atmospheric scientists have developed an algorithm that uses data from water vapor movements to measure wind. This could help predict extreme events like hurricanes. Wind speed and direction provide ...

Tuesday's wind chill values ranged from the single digits to below zero. (Copyright 2024 by KSAT - All rights reserved.) Currently, we find ourselves dealing with ...

Wind chill sounds pretty self explanatory. If it’s windy, it feels cooler — but, the concept isn’t as simple as you might think. First, let’s start with the history. The idea of wind chill, and the ...

Michigan Aerospace Corp. (MAC), a provider of optical products and advanced engineering services, reports that it has successfully completed a vibration test of a tunable LIDAR (light detection and ...

Your jaw would likely drop to the floor if you heard the meteorologist on your local news say that tomorrow’s wind speeds could reach 1,450 miles per hour. Say goodbye to your home, car and your ...

Above: The Mount Washington Observatory on an icy winter day. It was here that a wind gust of 231 mph was measured on April 12, 1934. It remained the highest-ever anemometer-measured wind gust on ...

A team of technicians from Vestas, the world's largest manufacturer of wind turbines, undertook the National Physical Laboratory's (NPL's) Dimensional Measurement training course to ensure that they ...