May 1, 2025 | Drones, Weather
Earlier this month, the Japanese telecommunications company Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) successfully used a drone equipped with a lightning-proof cage to essentially summon lightning in an effort to mitigate damage from an incoming thunderstorm....
Apr 10, 2025 | Space, Weather
In February, massive layoffs swept across the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in compliance with requests from the Trump administration. These cuts resulted in industry-wide concerns about immediate impacts to weather forecasts and climate...
Jan 9, 2025 | Autonomous Vehicles, Tire Technology, Weather
Self-driving fleets are escorting record numbers of passengers around cities like Phoenix and San Francisco. But that isn’t the case in frigid Midwest outposts like Akron, Ohio, home to tire company Goodyear, where hands remain firmly on the steering wheel. “Snow...
Sep 13, 2023 | Robots, Weather
To better understand the world’s largest storms, submersibles known as “gliders” are being deployed underneath hurricanes to monitor and collect data that help create more accurate forecasts. The gliders are torpedo-shaped watercraft developed by...
Aug 24, 2022 | Climate, Oceanography, Weather
With life-threatening heat waves experienced around the globe and the hurricane season upon the US, access to ocean data has never been more critical. The ocean environment is a key driver of weather patterns on land. Unless we understand our oceans, the insights we...
Jun 23, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Neural Networks, Weather
A team of researchers at Cornell University has developed a new method enabling autonomous vehicles to create “memories” of previous experiences, which can then be used in future navigation. This will be especially useful when these self-driving cars can’t rely on...
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