Tagged: Hurricane

As Hurricane Irma winds down — and a message from a Florida sheriff – saying that shooting guns at the storm would not turn it aside — brings to mind the question of why we can’t control hurricanes. The short answer is that we can’t...

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the distribution of dark matter in the center of the giant galaxy cluster Abell 1689, which contains about 1,000 galaxies, trillions of stars and resides 2.2 billion light-years from Earth. NASA/JPL-CALTECH/ESA/INSTITUTE OF ASTROPHYSICS OF ANDALUSIA, UNIVERSITY OF BASQUE...

Dubbed SUSTAIN; the laboratory offers the necessary tools for scientists to ‘CREATE’ a Category 5 hurricane. A project worth around $45 million gave scientists from the University Of Miami the ability to create an actual hurricane, with up to category 5 wind speeds in a...