Solar storms can increase drag on satellites. Now that drag is helping an astronomer track the atmosphere.

Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus is the most high-profile device to date to feature a barometer amongst its guts. Seems strange that a atmospheric pressure measurement would be crammed in a device where space ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A barometer is a tool meteorologists use to measure atmospheric pressure, which is defined using millibars (mb). The layers of air ...

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Portland State barometer reaches for the sky, and the record books Discarded glass pipes, off-the-shelf trusses and a vision propelled PSU instrument tech Tom Bennett to build a 40+foot barometer in ...

Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst for 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). The January Barometer is summed up in a single easy-to-remember phrase: "As ...