You may not realize it, but the Doppler effect is everywhere in our lives, from tracking the speed of cars with radar to locating satellites in the sky. It's all about how waves change their frequency when a source (like ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 20, 2023
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Doppler radar, the Consumer Price Index, quarterback rating—these and many other measuring tools have refined the way performance is both documented and predicted in weather, the economy and sports.
Economics & Business
Jan 18, 2023
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Doppler radar improves lives by peeking inside air masses to predict the weather. A Purdue University team is using similar technology to look inside living cells, introducing a method to detect pathogens and treat infections ...
Immunology
Feb 26, 2021
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Wave scattering appears practically everywhere in everyday life—from conversations across rooms, to ocean waves breaking on a shore, from colorful sunsets, to radar waves reflecting from aircraft. Scattering phenomena also ...
Optics & Photonics
Sep 22, 2020
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"Robot umpires" have arrived.
Other
Jul 11, 2019
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A team of researchers with Cornell University and the University of Oxford has found that birds and insects reacted in some surprising ways to the 2017 U.S. total solar eclipse. In their paper published in the journal Biology ...
Meteorite hunters who flocked to Detroit from across the U.S. after a meteor exploded are finding the fragments.
Space Exploration
Jan 20, 2018
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Expanded mobile phone coverage and the introduction of Doppler radar are being pushed to overcome critical shortcomings in WA farming regions.
Earth Sciences
Mar 23, 2015
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A new animation from NASA shows how a remarkable instrument called the HIWRAP looks into tropical cyclones at wind, rain and ice to analyze storm intensity.
Earth Sciences
Oct 7, 2014
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A real-time hurricane analysis and prediction system that effectively incorporates airborne Doppler radar information may accurately track the path, intensity and wind force in a hurricane, according to Penn State meteorologists. ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 25, 2014
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