Sentences with phrase «for radio waves»

Apple's current aluminum iPhone design requires gaps in the metal in order for radio waves to pass in and out of the housing.

Your body is made of water, and especially outside, in an open area, there isn't anything for radio waves to bounce off of.

Going through a plaster wall is easy for radio waves, going through metal pipes filled with water isn't.

The same applies for radio waves which are not absorbed much by the atmosphere or the surface.

«Normal» ice, such as that found on Earth, is like a sponge that absorbs radio waves, but ice at very low temperatures is a mirror for radio waves.

Given that we're about half way along one of the Milky Way's spiral arms, it would take about 80,000 years for our radio waves to blanket the entire galaxy.

Alien hunters look for radio waves because humans are so fond of using them.

Instead, Sun's team searched for radio waves from the next most abundant interstellar molecule, carbon monoxide gas.

This level of control has been available for radio waves for a long time but is only now becoming possible for light.

It acted like a funnel for radio waves, collecting them into its wide end and guiding them down into a detector.

For the radio waves to arrive as brightly as Schmidt saw them, after traveling that far, the object emitting them must be 100 times brighter than our entire galaxy.

A hidden or «choked» jet (white) powering a radio - emitting «cocoon» (pink) is the best explanation for the radio waves, gamma rays and X-rays the astronomers observed.

Financial News reports that Vigilant Global, a telecoms company owned by high - frequency trading firm DRW Trading, has submitted plans to build a 320 - metre tall tower to allow what it calls «a new communications point between the UK and Europe» which will have a «completely unobstructed» line of sight both optically, and for radio waves.

Not exact matches

Cohen has worked on an alternative system that would use live data on lightning strikes and the radio waves they emit to build a more resilient navigation system for the military that would be much more difficult to disrupt.

Just as radio or television waves can not be seen but yet produce sound and picture for us.

For example, in the picture we see on the television screen points that are near each other in the ordered visual image are not necessarily «near» each other in the form they are carried in the radio wave from which the image is translated.

As for microwave, there is SO much confusion about microwaves but here's the deal: there are all kinds of waves, radio waves, light bulb waves, ultra violet waves, etc. microwaves are somewhere between radio & light bulb waves.

Yeah, Polak is a garbage fire in one of the kitchen and it would be better to not have a garbage fire in one of the kitchen than to have one, but there are some bigger holes like a hepatitis B outbreak aka Andersen not stopping pucks, the first mate has launched a mutiny movement aka out their 2C for a just suspension, 30 foot waves coming in aka lost Komarov to injury, no radio communication aka Zaitsev looks completely lost, the bottom 2 decks are entirely submerged aka they have no answer for the Bruins top line, the life boats are made of cheap dry wall aka the PP and PK are MIA...

According to scientists speaking to Forbes in 2015, there's no plausible way for radio frequency (RF) waves to cause cancer «without re-writing the laws of physics and biology.»

Three projects known as pulsar timing arrays, in North America, Europe and Australia, are using some of the largest radio telescopes to identify pulsars and look for these waves.

Just as your eyes can see visible light but not radio waves or x-rays, Webb's vision is tuned for the infrared — a portion of the spectrum ideal for studying ancient stars and galaxies, but where oxygen's barcode - like absorption lines are rather slight and sparse.

Understanding this instability is key to some experimental nuclear fusion reactions but it has never been observed for high - frequency radio waves.

And Sennheiser had a hand in the establishment of wireless headphones too, winning an Emmy award in 1995 for wireless headphones that communicated via radio waves.

Alas, using radio waves to tap hydrogen and oxygen as a combustible source of energy is inefficient, and scientists have so far been unable to adapt the process for energy production.

Radio astronomers have used a similar approach for many years, with great success, but light waves are more than a million times smaller than radio waves, meaning optical interferometry requires a million times greater accuRadio astronomers have used a similar approach for many years, with great success, but light waves are more than a million times smaller than radio waves, meaning optical interferometry requires a million times greater accuradio waves, meaning optical interferometry requires a million times greater accuracy.

Instruments that pick up other frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum — radio waves or X rays, for instance — also can not detect the shadow universe.

Humans, for example, have been transmitting radio waves for only about 80 years, so our radio waves cover less than 0.001 percent of the Milky Way.

Scientists use the apparatus to search for axions converting into radio waves in a strong magnetic field.

The observatory includes three radio telescopes for Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), which receive radio waves emitted by quasars.

ZAPPING the inside of an artery with radio waves can reduce high blood pressure even in people for whom drugs don't work.

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) monitor the arrival times of radio pulses from numerous pulsars to search for shifts caused by passing long - wavelength gravitational waves.

For astronomers who observe the universe through radio waves generated by stars and galaxies, interference from an Earth - based source can easily drown out any far - off signal.

Three projects currently read the timing of radio waves arriving from nearby pulsars: the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array in Australia, North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves and the European Pulsar Timing Awaves arriving from nearby pulsars: the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array in Australia, North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves and the European Pulsar Timing AWaves and the European Pulsar Timing Array.

Radio wave emissions continued to brighten for at least 93 days, and are still visible now, the team found.

Mysterious radio wave flashes from far outside the galaxy are proving tough for astronomers to explain.

Still, detecting the faint dip was a challenge: Other cosmic sources, such as the Milky Way, emit radio waves at much higher levels, which must be accounted for.

For the uninitiated, the name «SETI Institute» may conjure up sleek glass buildings, mammoth radio dishes, and creased - brow researchers rushing about waving enigmatic printouts.

Radar satellites come equipped with an antenna that sends radio waves to Earth; after hitting the planet's surface, the signal is reflected and scattered back toward a detector that generates an image without the need for visible light.

Last week researchers reported they had traced a cosmic blast of radio waves back to its source for the first time — but now another team of fast - acting astronomers has called the result into question.

Dayton Jones and Thomas Kuiper, radio astronomers at JPL, have sketched a plan for deploying a rover to build a VLF radio telescope - essentially a huge network of wires acting as radio - wave receivers - in a crater on the lunar farside, where the moon's bulk blots out Earth's radio noise.

Such regions include areas where molecules of water and methanol act as natural amplifiers of radio signals — masers, the radio - wave equivalent of lasers for light waves.

The team shows that a nanoscale metal rod on graphene (acting as an antenna for light) can capture infrared light and transform it into graphene plasmons, analogous to a radio antenna converting radio waves into electromagnetic waves in a metal cable.

Most SETI researchers look for signals sent by sentient beings in radio waves, because these waves traverse galaxies without interference from gas and dust.

Last weekend, a temporary short - wave radio station (call sign GBZero Oliver Lodge) was set up in the University of Liverpool for five days to commemorate the event.

Arecibo's recent work includes searching for gravitational waves by the effect they have on the clocklike regularity of dead stars called pulsars; watching for mysterious blasts of energy called fast radio bursts (SN Online: 12/21/16); and keeping tabs on near - Earth asteroids.

As Maxwell figured out, an electric charge changing its state of motion would emit electromagnetic waves (i.e., blame him for talk radio).

Researchers tried to pin the gamma rays on some object they already knew — something that emitted X-rays, radio waves, or visible light — but for a long time they failed.

Instead of searching for the light from individual galaxies with an optical telescope, the team stalked a different quarry, red - shifted radio waves emitted by hydrogen atoms floating in huge clouds within the galaxies.

At present, metamaterials work best for longer - wavelength radiation such as radio waves and microwaves, which require elements that are on the order of tens of millimeters.

For a few seconds, the ionized region reflects short - wavelength radio waves, creating short blips and beeps of sound.