Sentences with phrase «on radio wave»

For example, radar is based on radio wave echoes.

Wireless network systems are created through routers that communicate with your computing devices through signals on the radio waves.

This is because land - based networks rely on radio waves, which work well in the air, but not so much underwater.

Although no one knew it yet, Guglielmo Marconi had ushered in the era of wireless communications by demonstrating that signals could be carried on radio waves.

Cellphones, Wi - Fi and GPS all rely on radio waves.

The telescopes that are making this most recent effort rely on radio waves in the narrow frequencies that can penetrate the dense nebulae around the black hole.

NASA's newest moon orbiter is beaming data to Earth via a powerful laser beam to test an innovative interplanetary communications systems that doesn't rely on radio waves, and a new photo reveals just what a moon laser signal looks like in infrared.

However, it works on radio waves.

Not exact matches

Soundpays, a mobile wallet powered by sound waves, enables you to make instant purchases on your mobile device while browsing in - store, shopping online, viewing an infomercial, or even listening to the radio.

Canada's telecom companies will soon be bidding on more radio waves.

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.

Those Singing Stars... Science has discovered that stars emit radio waves, which are received on earth as a high pitch.

Throwing my bags into the car, I waved my wife and children a hasty goodbye and then reversed out of the drive, automatically turning on the radio as I went.

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.

Play soothing music or turn on white noise such as a talk radio station, or play a CD of nature sounds, such as ocean waves or rainfall.

He was denied a voice to defend himself even on the air waves of the very radio station where he used to pay the salary of workers, the radio station he armed people to defend in 2008 when the NPP moved against it.

The most popularly known one was whether or not the submarine commander could receive Radio 4 on either long wave or VHF.

Radio waves that originated at a later time in cosmic history, on the other hand, might be stretched only, say, fivefold, arriving here as 105 - centimeter signals.

Like the tuner on a radio, different detectors (bottom row) pick up different frequencies of gravitational waves.

Because you have to use a radio wavelength that is smaller than the dimensions of the object you are trying to locate, radar relies on high - frequency waves, just a few inches long (higher frequencies have shorter wavelengths).

If you provide energy in the form of radio waves, these tiny magnets can switch orientation and give off a resonance frequency that changes predictably based on the strength of the magnetic field.

In the process, they would produce radio waves at a frequency that depends on the axion's mass, which is unknown.

Regular bursts of radio waves that made it possible to know Jupiter's day have proved irregular on Saturn.

CH3OH is normally produced on the surface of dust, but when the temperature increases by some process, it will be released from the dust surface and turn into gas which emits radio waves.

Over time, that light's wavelength was stretched to several meters by the expansion of the universe, before being detected on Earth as radio waves.

This week, a ground - based radio telescope has revealed that, beneath a veil of haze and clouds on Jupiter, there exists a giant wave of ammonia that circles the planet north of its equator.

If A affects B without being right next to it, then the effect in question must be indirect — the effect in question must be something that gets transmitted by means of a chain of events in which each event brings about the next one directly, in a manner that smoothly spans the distance from A to B. Every time we think we can come up with an exception to this intuition — say, flipping a switch that turns on city street lights (but then we realize that this happens through wires) or listening to a BBC radio broadcast (but then we realize that radio waves propagate through the air)-- it turns out that we have not, in fact, thought of an exception.

The technology is based on the fact that human beings absorb radio waves.

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.

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.

Just a few days later, on Sept. 5, members of the Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science (EMFISIS) team made an audio recording of radio waves in the belts, at a frequency audible to humans, known as «chorus.»

Astronomers had been working throughout the 1970s on new radio telescopes that operated on millimeter - length waves.

Telescope operator Ángel Vázquez sent the first damage reports via short - wave radio on September 21.

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.

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.

Traditional accelerators, like the Large Hadron Collider where the Higgs boson was recently discovered, rely on high - power radio - frequency waves to energize electrons.

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.

One of the Venusian surprises discovered at that time is that radio waves are reflected differently at different elevations on Venus.

Telescopes that pick up radio waves, not visible light, got their start in 1932 when engineer Karl Jansky noticed that the static plaguing his equipment varied on a daily schedule.

In the same way large antennas on rooftops direct emission of classical radio waves for cellular and satellite transmissions, the nano - antenna efficiently directed the single photons emitted from the nanocrystals into a well - defined direction in space.

Of course, outside Germany some world - shattering things were going on as well: in Paris, Braque's and Picasso's cubist paintings and Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, which brought on a riot at its premiere; in Bologna, Marconi's experiments with radio waves; at Kitty Hawk, the Wright brothers» first flight.

Previous observations had suggested that very - low - frequency (VLF) radio waves (from 5 to 25 kilohertz) transmitted on Earth were helping to clear particles from the inner belt.

Software installed on the user's device — whether a laptop, smartphone, radio or television — translates this information into a countdown for their specific location based on estimates of the speed at which the waves are traveling through Earth's crust.

This week, meteors» hiss may come from radio waves, pigeons that build on the wings of those that came before, and a potential answer to the century - old mystery of what turned two lions into people eaters with Online News Editor David Grimm.

So far, most of the hunt for alien signals has used radio waves, based on the theory that radio is a relatively easy and cheap way to send signals a long way through space.

We know that for energies of modest to intermediate energy, the culprit or the source of the acceleration appears to be the shock front that surrounds a [an] expanding supernova blast wave; that is to say, we have a star that undergoes a massive cosmic explosion [and] drives a strong shock wave out into the surrounding interstellar medium, and the gas around the shock wave, and all the magnetic fields associated with it are capable of accelerating particles to very high energies; and also incidentally magnifying and amplifying the magnetic field associated with that shock front and giving a lot of x-ray emission and radio emission and so on, and so we've understood that.

Specifically, they analyzed radio occultations — made when Voyager 2 sent radio waves through the rings to be detected back on Earth — and stellar occultations, made when the spacecraft measured the light of background stars shining through the rings, which helps reveal how much material they contain.

Airplane navigation systems, cell phone communications and credit card transactions all rely on the stable transmission of radio waves through the ionosphere, which is disrupted when particles from flares further ionize this part of the Earth's atmosphere.

In terms of the foreseeable technological developments on the earth, the cost per photon and the amount of absorption of radiation by interstellar gas and dust, radio waves seem to be the most efficient and economical method of interstellar communication.

There are scientific benefits to pinpointing its location, says Wlodek Kofman, principal investigator on Rosetta's CONSERT (Comet Nucleus Sounding Experiment by Radiowave Transmission) experiment, designed to send radio waves between the parent craft and Philae to study the comet's interior.