Nature's own rain detector: This animal can detect rain before it really falls

Elephants possess extraordinary senses, allowing them to detect approaching rain and storms from up to 150 miles away. Their ...
Southern Methodist University (SMU)

SMU geophysicists develop low-frequency, acoustic sensors to expand infrasound research

The Sapphire sensor, assembled in the laboratory of Arrowsmith, SMU professor of Earth sciences, measures low-frequency sound ...
Yahoo

Sensors designed to detect nuclear detonations can help track space debris falling to Earth

Scientists are studying how sensors designed to detect nuclear tests could help track space junk and meteorites crashing down in the world's most remote regions. Across the world, dozens of ...
Billings Gazette

Unnoticed hydrothermal explosions detected by infrasound

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Michael Poland, geophysicist with the ...