News tagged with radio
The high energy crab
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Crab Nebula is the remnant of a supernova. Its precursor star exploded in 1054 AD in an event that was recorded by Chinese and (quite probably) Anasazi Indian astronomers. It is called ...
Oct 31, 2011 |
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An alien code close to home: Seeking ET beyond the radio silence
Any intelligent extraterrestrial life that exists probably won't announce itself by blowing up the White House, or win over the hearts of children as a lovable alien with a glowing finger. Many scientists ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 28, 2011 |
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NASA in final preparations for Nov. 8 asteroid flyby
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA scientists will be tracking asteroid 2005 YU55 with antennas of the agency's Deep Space Network at Goldstone, Calif., as the space rock safely flies past Earth slightly closer than the ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 27, 2011 |
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Scientists hope to create robot strawberry pickers
Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), the UK's Measurement Institute, have developed an imaging technology which can identify the ripeness of strawberries before they are picked. The developers ...
Oct 19, 2011 |
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Observatory seeks a new name for transformed scientific icon
(PhysOrg.com) -- The most famous radio telescope in the world is about to get a new name. The Very Large Array, known around the world, isn't what it used to be. The iconic radio telescope, known around the ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 14, 2011 |
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Web-radio specialists reel in traditional-radio clients
Like Levi Strauss, who got rich selling goods to immigrants during the Gold Rush, the founders of Triton Digital are making their fortune by providing the technology to radio companies wanting to mine digital gold.
Oct 12, 2011 |
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Near-extinct Philippine eagle shot dead
An endangered Philippine eagle, one of only a few hundred left in the world, has been shot dead, a conservation group that had previously rescued the bird said Friday.
Oct 07, 2011 |
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Antennas by General Dynamics enable 'early science' for ALMA
Thirteen 12-meter antennas manufactured by General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies have been successfully installed at the 16,500-foot-high Chajnantor plateau in Chile, home to the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) astronomical observatory. Loc ...
Oct 03, 2011 |
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Most complex ground-based observatory - ALMA - opens its eyes
(PhysOrg.com) -- Humanity's most complex ground-based astronomy observatory, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), has officially opened for astronomers. The first released image, from a ...
Oct 03, 2011 |
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WISE mission captures black hole's wildly flaring jet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have captured rare data of a flaring black hole, revealing new details about these powerful objects and their blazing jets. ...
Sep 21, 2011 |
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New ceramic chip antennas offer better performance, reliability
Wireless devices such as mobile phones rely on the radio spectrum to send and receive data. There is growing interest in using a worldwide unlicensed spectrum around 60 gigahertz for future wireless applications, ...
Sep 19, 2011 |
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Spotify doesn't quite hit the spot
Subscription services have been touted as the future of music for the past decade. But at least in this country, they've never taken off.
Sep 16, 2011 |
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Community computing project TheSkyNet launched
A community computing science initiative to help discover the hidden Universe was officially launched yesterday at Curtin University by Western Australia's Minister for Science and Innovation, the Hon. John Day.
Sep 14, 2011 |
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Dark clouds in space
(PhysOrg.com) -- Infrared dark clouds (IRDCs) are dark patches in the sky seen against the continuous, bright infrared background produced by our galaxy. IRDCs are rich in molecules and relatively dense, cool ...
Sep 13, 2011 |
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Graphene may open the gate to future terahertz technologies
Nestled between radio waves and infrared light is the terahertz (THz) portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. By adding a nanoscale bit of graphene, researchers have found a better way to tune radiation for a THz transmitter.
Sep 12, 2011 |
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