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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the history of science and exploration. Today's Google Doodle celebrates the 214th birthday of Christian Doppler, whose ...

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 ...

The inverse Doppler effect has been observed in an experiment for the first time. Nigel Seddon and Trevor Bearpark at BAE Systems in Bristol in the UK saw the effect in an electrical transmission line ...

Tune into any TV weather report and you’ll hear the words “Doppler radar” as meteorologists track storms across California. But how does Doppler radar work? And how accurate is it? The concept of ...

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 ...

Meteorologists and weather experts in South Texas rely heavily on Doppler radar technology, but how does it work? How can a giant soccer-ball-shaped tower, known as the radome, detect clouds hundreds ...

The Doppler effect can be heard particularly clearly when a train passes by. The presence of the same effect in the generalised telegraph equation indicates the wave nature of heat transport over ...