Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. We know ...

An MIT engineer has a radical idea for determining just how strong a hurricane is: Analyze the sound of its roar, recorded by hydrophones 800 meters under the surface, to calculate the speed of its ...

When we talk about the speed of sound, we usually mean how fast it moves through air. But it can travel much faster through other media, and now scientists at the University of Cambridge and Queen ...