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 ...

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 ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. There are many laws that govern the natural world: the laws of polarity, gravity, relativity ...

The headline is somewhat of a trick question: of course the effect did exist before the railroads. However, it wasn’t yet defined by the physics of the day, nor was it even noticed before the ...