The secret to directly detecting dark matter might be blowin’ in the wind. The mysterious substance continues to elude scientists even though it outweighs visible matter in the universe by about 8 to ...

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 ...

COMSTOCK PARK, Mich. — Meteorologists all over the world use a wide variety of instruments to measure things like temperature, air pressure, humidity and a host of other variables. In Tuesday's ...

Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence: Best of 2024 recognizes kits for their ease of use, value, versatility, and utility in teaching about renewable wind energy BEAVERTON, Ore., Feb. 19, 2025 ...

Apex Clean Energy went to extraordinary lengths to win the public’s trust in Indiana’s Vermillion County, but officials banned wind anyway. The county reflects a nationwide challenge for wind ...

Like a sea anchor slacking the pace of a wind-driven ship, helium may be the drag that slows the solar wind in its million-mile-per-hour rush across the cosmos. And because the ordinary solar wind ...

NASA didn’t send people to the moon just to bounce around and hit golf balls; Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin of Apollo 11 were performing science experiments during their brief time on the lunar ...

A funny thing happened as the U.S. prepared to launch an experiment to protect the nation's future electric grids. It turned into a real-world test. Rising amounts of renewable energy will reduce ...