1+ week, 10+ hour ago   (386+ words) Somewhere beneath the Atlantic, a shark is doing the work of a weather buoy — gliding through the warm, deep water that quietly powers hurricanes. It carries a sensor. It goes where researchers rarely can. Forecasters have long known that what…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (630+ words) Every hurricane season, forecasters run into the same problem: warm water hiding beneath the ocean’s surface, invisible to satellites and beyond the reach of most monitoring equipment, yet capable of turning a manageable storm into a catastrophic one. Somewhere in…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (148+ words) Yahoo TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) -- Scientists use a range of technology to study hurricanes, from satellites, to AI-powered models, to drones dropped out of Hurricane Hunter aircraft in the center of the storm. On this edition of Tracking the Tropics, our…...

1+ mon, 1+ hour ago   (229+ words) Scientists have a strange new way to forecast hurricanes: sharks scoop.upworthy.com Scientists have a strange new way to forecast hurricanes: sharks Researchers from the University of Delaware are testing an unconventional way to improve hurricane forecasts Rather than…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (150+ words) The Atlantic hurricane season has entered a notably quiet period, with no new tropical development expected through the first week of August, according to AccuWeather. The last Atlantic system, Tropical Storm Bertha, dissipated on July 24. Forecasters have added a low…...

1+ mon, 22+ hour ago   (713+ words) PUBLISHED: 12 Aug 2026 at 08:01 From the killer shark of Jaws to the tornado-tossed predators of the Sharknado movies, films have long portrayed sharks as objects of summer fear. But when a shark cuts through the waters off the US East Coast,…...

1+ mon, 18+ hour ago   (382+ words) To sharpen hurricane forecasting, scientists are tapping an unlikely source to track ocean measurements. Sensor-equipped sharks can carry instruments through waters that are otherwise hard to reach, collecting data that could improve storm predictions. According to Yahoo News, researchers are…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (136+ words) Scientists searching for better ways to predict how powerful hurricanes will become are getting help from an unlikely source: sharks. Researchers are equipping ocean-going sharks with specialized sensors that collect temperature and depth measurements from areas that can be difficult…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (427+ words) Scientists also hope the research will change how people see sharks. Carlisle said, "They are amazing animals perfectly adapted to the ocean, and we can learn a huge amount from them. If we can show that sharks can help people,…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (998+ words) Scientists in the United States are testing whether sharks can help improve hurricane forecasts by carrying sensors that collect information about ocean conditions. Researchers at the University of Delaware are tagging sharks with small devices that measure temperature, depth and…...