Space is getting crowded. The airwaves are full. But by swapping out congested wires ...

Radio astronomers have decoded a peculiar repeating radio signal from deep space, tracing it to a vampiric binary star system ...

The origin of enigmatic long-period radio bursts has been shown to be from the clash of magnetic fields as a white dwarf ...

In a significant advance in biological quantum sensing, a research team led by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has discovered and tested a new mechanism of action in which proteins can be ...

Our understanding of the electromagnetic spectrum goes back to Isaac Newton, but astronomers are still finding new ways to ...

We’ve never seen a member of this class of signals behave like this, but there is a surprising parallel within our own Solar ...

Here’s how you can hack together a radio transmitter and receiver out of stuff you have at home—and explore the weirdness of wireless. The “Golden Age of Radio” supposedly ended in the ’50s, with the ...

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At what point do "you" end and the outside world begins? It might feel like a weird question with an obvious answer, but your brain has to work surprisingly hard to judge that boundary. Now, ...

Ten years ago U.S. officials stationed in Cuba started reporting a strange collection of symptoms, from ringing ears and dizziness to crushing headaches and memory loss. The symptoms, collectively ...

Astronomers have detected the first-ever "radio signal" coming from the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, right as it passed the halfway mark on its oneway trip through the solar system. And while this may ...