On this Independence Day, many of us will celebrate by watching fireworks, maybe having a barbecue, or just enjoying time ...

Jefferson founded a nation. He also helped found American meteorology, as BBC Weather explains.

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Haiyang-2E satellite launch marks China’s first step in replacing its aging ocean-monitoring fleet — a generational upgrade ...

The weather report is rarely spot-on, but if forecasts have seemed particularly inaccurate recently, it’s because they have ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Weather Stream, a Boulder, Colorado, commercial weather satellite operator, is collecting global atmospheric ...

Meteorologist Stevie Daniels shows kids how to become weather scientists with a fun summer experiment that measures rainfall ...

Sensors cannot replace bridge inspectors. They can help engineers see corrosion, cracks, scour and weak magnetic signals that eyes alone can miss.

The sky was a very dangerous place in the early days of commercial aviation. By flying into storms to learn how they worked, these experts made air travel and weather forecasting much more predictable ...

Critics say the move to retire the $360 million system doesn't make sense. The National Science Foundation cites new scientific priorities.

Scientists warn that the Trump administration's push to dismantle a vital network of ocean-sensing instruments will stymie ...

Humans are animals that measure things. Call us Homo mensura. We have a compulsion to quantify, and for millennia we’ve been inventing new ways to go about it. For anything you can think of, there’s a ...