Umbrellas, originating as sunshades in ancient civilizations like Egypt and China, symbolized power and royalty. Initially deemed effeminate in the West, their use gained acceptance through figures ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — On this day in 1957, the United States officially entered the era of modern weather observation with the commissioning of the WSR-57 radar in Miami, Florida.

The Smithsonian invented the modern weather forecast at the time of its founding and has continued collecting data on climate and weather ever since. For nearly 180 years, researchers at the ...

The missing data is especially critical because weather models, which rely heavily on real-time observations from weather balloons, are at the heart of modern weather predictions. These balloons ...