Students ask me this question a lot at local career days throughout the school year: “Miss... (pointing at the anemometer I have up on the screen), what does THAT thing do?” It typically leads to a ...

Anna Mani, the Indian physicist who built the instruments that gave independent India the ability to measure its own weather, mapped the country's solar radiation and wind energy potential, and helped ...

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