GRAND RAPIDS — Recently we have had some very windy days, but do we always know which direction the wind is blowing? In today's weather experiment we are going to build a wind vane or weather vane to ...

Rats use information from their whiskers to localize an airflow source, new research has shown. This discovery could pave the way for the design of novel airflow measurement devices that imitate these ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Wind direction plays a crucial role in determining daily temperatures—especially in regions like Western New York. A northerly breeze coming off Lake Ontario often brings cooler air ...

One of the biggest problems with wind energy is that it's difficult to predict the behavior of the wind itself and, by extension, to plan for the amount of power wind turbines are able to generate in ...

The wind has a big impact on our temperatures...especially in the spring and fall. I am going to show you a chart that shows the frequency of wind speed and direction during a specific time at a ...

Researchers from Portland State University claim to have developed a method of raising solar plant energy yield around 5% while reducing panel degradation by more than 0.3% per year The academics have ...

Pinwheel (If you do not have a pinwheel, you can make a homemade one using a sheet of paper, a pencil or pen, a round wooden skewer and scissors—see steps below.) If you're enjoying this article, ...

The lower St. Johns River basin is an estuary with all the typical characteristics of a semi-enclosed body of water, open to the ocean and diluted with freshwater. That fact has been discussed ...

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