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Student Invents Shapeshifting Pinecone-Inspired Building Material
Let the sun shine in, and keep the rain out
Watch Raindrops Make Asteroid-Like Collisions [Slo-Mo Video]
Researchers are making it rain to get to the bottom of impact craters
Intelligent Headlights Make Raindrops Disappear
A camera finds individual drops, then a projector blacks them out of the driver's view.
How The Sound Of Rain Helps Engineers Diagnose Unsafe Bridges
Structurally flawed bridges produce a different sound when splashed with water. If we listen in during the rain, we can hear the problem--and fix it--before it gets worse.
Powerful Lasers Could Be Fired Into the Clouds to Make It Rain
We’re further along in using science to manually force the weather’s hand than many people suspect. In 2009, for example,...
Fossilized Raindrop Dimples Add to Mystery of Ancient Earth’s Warmth
Pumice-like cratery indents formed by ancient raindrop splats are adding to the mystery of why the adolescent Earth was warm...
Chinese Government Plans to Cause Ten Percent More Rain By 2015
China is already doing plenty of things to the atmosphere above it, but most changes are byproducts of the country’s...
Lasers Could Create Clouds, and Perhaps Rain, on Demand
The future of weather manipulation just got even crazier
National Weather Service Enlists Twitter Users and Drivers to Crowdsource Weather Reports
You're the meteorologist now! Well, you and your car
