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Controlling lightning with lasers, transforming dumps into parks, mapping subterranean passageways and more
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Controlling lightning with lasers, transforming dumps into parks, mapping subterranean passageways and more
Low Frequency Array (LOFAR)—a state-of-the-art network of thousands of radio telescopes primarily used for astronomy—tunes its antennas to thunderclouds when storms roll in and impede its normal work. This allows the tool …
In both 2016 and 2018, Lockheed Martin launched one next-generation weather tracking satellite—known as GOES, or Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites—capable of detecting almost every bolt of lightning in the Western Hemisphere. Two …
A closer look at the progressive project's innovative solution to bringing natural light underground
The start-up's first home speaker makes the perfect bedside accompaniment