Since 1988, this meteorological breakthrough has nearly doubled tornado warning times, giving communities crucial minutes to seek safety. You can demonstrate it at home with a simple experiment!

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 ...

Ever notice how the pitch of an ambulance's siren changes as it speeds by? If so, then you're already familiar with a phenomenon that astronomers use to measure the relative speeds of astronomical ...

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 ...

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 ...

Blackmore's lidar system can detect the velocity of pedestrians and vehicles: objects moving away from the vehicle are in yellow or red, those moving toward it appear blue. This morning I got a ...

[Daniel] stumbled on an interesting paper (which we featured before) on Doppler gesture sensing using only a computer’s speaker and microphone. Unfortunately the paper didn’t include source code so ...