Video: Largest Rocket Lifts Largest Satellite Ever Into Space, Where It Will...
A behemoth spy satellite blasted into space Sunday night aboard the country’s biggest heavy-lift rocket, the second satellite launched by by the National Reconnaissance…
View Article'Plasma Antennas' Could Enable Next-Gen Wi-Fi, Beaming Gigs Per Second...
In the wide, wireless world we've created for ourselves, it's possible to access the Web in more places and on more devices than ever before. But while a new generation of…
View ArticleBy "Beamsteering" Antenna Signals in One Direction, Devices' Power...
It's an act of waste that people the world over engage in every day just by switching on their mobile devices: boot up a mobile phone, netbook, or other mobile device and it…
View ArticleHow To Fix Radio Blackout During Spacecraft Reentry: A Giant Plasma Sheath...
Watch those old videos of the Apollo missions (or movies about the Apollo missions), and the nail-biting, climactic moment is always spacecraft reentry, where the incoming…
View ArticleTiny Rubik's-Cube-Sized Cell Towers Could Increase Coverage and Decrease Cost
It took the cell phone several generations to shrink from those oft-mocked Motorola DynaTACs to the slender, pocketable smartphones we have today. But it seems the cell phone…
View ArticleLarge New NIH Study Finds That Cell Phone Use Does Affect Brain Activity
Cell phones speed up brain activity, especially in regions of the brain near the phone’s antenna during a long phone call, according to researchers from the National…
View ArticleScrunchable Antenna Sewn Into Life Vests Could Help Rescuers Find the Lost
Adventure-seekers can use all kinds of emergency beacon tech to help themselves get found in case they go missing — but in many cases, this requires sticking something in your pocket, from which it...
View ArticleThe Northernmost Dish In The World: Tracking Satellites and Dodging Polar Bears
Sten-Christian Pedersen oversees the northernmost antenna array on Earth, 25 dishes tracking about 100 satellites on the small archipelago of Svalbard, 500 miles south of the…
View ArticleBig Pic: The Last Radio Antenna Arrives At Chile's Massive ALMA Telescope
High up in the Chilean desert, this 12-meter wide, ultra-precise radio telescope has just been handed over to its new home. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter…
View ArticleDefy The Cable Company With A DIY HDTV Antenna
Frustrated by years of expensive cable bills, Norm Sutaria ditched his set-top box and used online instructions to build a homemade HDTV antenna. Then the education…
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