You're sitting at a café, enjoying the recent balmy weather with an iced coffee. But ruining your sedate afternoon is the screeching siren of an approaching ambulance. As it nears, the sound seems to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oscillations and Waves is one of the most scoring areas in NEET Physics. Solve these practice questions to improve accuracy, ...

Everyone has experienced the Doppler effect. An ambulance's siren has a higher pitch as it approaches you, and a lower pitch when moving away. Now, imagine that the pitch goes down as the ambulance ...

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” ...

A twist on the physics that cops use to clock speeding drivers can determine how fast an object is spinning. The approach could be used to protect wind turbines from damaging winds, learn about ...

A team including researchers from The University of Manchester’s National Graphene Institute (NGI) has revealed that sonic boom and Doppler-shifted sound waves can be created in a graphene transistor, ...

Attention Star Wars and Star Trek fans. This blog entry will make you question everything you know!!! Ok, that’s a bit of an overstatement but scientists much brighter than me have discovered ...