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Though many people may hear “Doppler Radar” as tool for tracking weather systems, it is used for much more and has roots in science dating back generations. The Doppler Effect, as it is known, is also ...

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 Doppler effect is an observed change in pitch (how high or low a sound is) when either the source of the sound or the listener is in motion. Imagine a car, its horn blaring, approaching you as you ...

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 ...

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 ...

4 Extra Debut. Charles Hazlewood and Queen’s Brian May celebrate the audio Doppler effect, with a brass band and a train. From 2017. The Doppler effect not only proved that the universe was expanding, ...

Physicists have generated a lot of excitement in recent years by dreaming up specially structured materials with novel applications like invisibility cloaks. What’s more, some of these “metamaterials” ...

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