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 ...

Imagine you're at the train station, waiting to catch the northbound train. It's a quiet evening. You hear a horn sound in the distance, but it's the express coming from the opposite direction, not ...

Doppler radar stands as the most important modern invention in meteorology, fundamentally transforming how we predict, prepare for, and track severe weather events. Since installations began across ...

On today’s episode of “For Science!” we invite a very special guest to the lab, 9 & 10 chief meteorologist Michael Stevens to discuss the often misunderstood concept of Doppler. Many believe that the ...

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 ...

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 ...