MILWAUKEE -- Probably, at some point in your life, you've seen a weather map similar to the picture below. It has red Ls and blue Hs all over the place, representing low and high pressure. Looking ...

The principal tool in the Atmospheric Physics Lab is a Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectrometer. Because the OH stretch (which is an IR active transition) in the water molecule is particularly ...

Happy Monday, and welcome to another edition of Beyond The Forecast! One of the most helpful pieces of data we have in forecasting is atmospheric pressure. It can be hard to tell on a generic day, but ...

A team led by physicists at Washington University in St. Louis has created quantum sensors that can survive in extreme conditions. Built inside unbreakable sheets of crystallized boron nitride, the ...