GMRS power levels and wide-band capable signal will allow a further talking range than FRS radio. When used with ... automatically scans and receives weather reports from the channel, letting ...

"Sunspots are complex magnetic regions of the sun where energy can be stored in huge amounts," astronomer Peter T. Gallagher said.

Next Generation Weather Radar or NEXRAD, a system operated by several US government agencies, detects wind and precipitation ...

Alternative signals - radio frequencies from cell phone towers - could be used to calculate an airplane's position and ...

Solar maximum refers to the highest rate of solar activity during the sun's approximately 11-year solar cycle. It is ...

This claim is seemingly supported by a study of snakebite frequency, which shows the number of bites rose and fell in relation to periods of drought and no drought. Researchers then concluded ...

Researchers are taking experimental navigation technology to the skies, pioneering a backup system to keep an airplane on course when it cannot rely on global positioning system satellites.

It's capable of delivering majestic phenomena like the auroras near Earth's poles, but it can also have more alarming ...

Dangling from a weather balloon 80,000 feet above New Mexico, a pair of antennas sticks out from a Styrofoam cooler. From ...

If they can collect signal data from the stratosphere, they may be able to develop a way to guide vehicles, such as aircraft, ...

Our temps Saturday and Sunday are closer to average, with Sunday looking to be in the 60s. As we head into the work week temps will go back up to the 70s. WCCO meteorologist Lisa Meadows breaks ...