Sentences with phrase «radio signals in»

Astronomers believe that these are spinning neutron stars (extremely dense objects formed from the collapse of massive stars) with strong magnetic fields that emit radio signals in one direction.
Instead of broadcasting its own signal, a passive radar system listens in to the cacophony of radio signals in the environment and monitors the way moving objects change them.
At the appropriate frequency they could even be the brightest radio signals in the sky.
An innovative new methodology for assessing the effect of space weather on radio signals in the ionosphere has been published in the journal Radio Science.
Cars beaming short - range radio signals in 360 degrees and broadcasting their exact position on the road at every moment could auto - drive together, bumper to bumper, at high speeds.
radio signal in 1977 (the signal's source remains disputed); the 1996 announcement of fossilized microbes in a Martian meteorite; the strange behavior of Tabby's Star reported in 2015; and 2017's discoveries of exoplanets that exist within distant habitable zones.

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NASA uses a technique called data sonification to take signals from radio waves, plasma waves, and magnetic fields and convert them into audio tracks to «hear» what's happening in space.
In the 1900s, a U.S. army officer named George Owen Squier developed a method to transmit radio signals along electrical and telephone wires.
In the end, the committee's advisory report recommended tracking all drones, using a mix of radio and cell tower signals to continuously monitor more sophisticated ones, while less sophisticated drone models could be tracked intermittently through software modifications.
It was, in a way, worst for people in East Germany, who lived tantalizingly close to their wealthy European cousins, where radio and TV signals easily carried information about the latest consumerist luxuries.
In the hours before the launch, Japanese and South Korean sources reported that North Korea had sent a radio signal similar to ones it had sent before past launches.
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5G and small cells go hand in hand since the technical standards of the next - generation networks will support many more connection points with fast backbone connections but lower - powered radio signals.
«We have a Signal 7 in Room 229,» Hollywood Fire Rescue units said of 92 - year - old Miguel Antonio Franco, using their code for a deceased person, according to emergency radio calls provided by the audio streaming website Broadcastify.
Shortly before 7 a.m. came the radio call of another body: «We have an additional Signal 7 in Room 226.»
This is the third possibility: Life appears and in some cases develops into intelligent beings, but when it reaches the stage of sending radio signals it will also have the technology to make nuclear bombs and other weapons of mass destruction.
On Radio National breakfast this morning ACCC Chairman, Graeme Samuel, was asked about price signalling between banks, the ACCC's plans to review James Packer's acquisition of an interest in the Ten Network and about the ACCC's roll in the implementation of the NBN.
Fischer talked about a friend who had a steel plate in his head that picked up radio signals.
A large number of things can cause interference with wireless monitors, and this includes things like radio signals, wireless signals from other types of wireless devices that might be in your home or in neighbor's homes, etc. even microwave ovens can cause interference on a wireless signal.
In addition, other radio users can easily intercept the signal between the parent unit and baby unit, enabling them to listen in on your conversations with your baby and even possibly hear other sounds in your homIn addition, other radio users can easily intercept the signal between the parent unit and baby unit, enabling them to listen in on your conversations with your baby and even possibly hear other sounds in your homin on your conversations with your baby and even possibly hear other sounds in your homin your home.
Senate Democrats on Thursday blasted the chamber's number two Republican after he signaled his support for Donald Trump's presidential campaign in a radio interview.
I tried to listen on the radio (WUAM — 900 on your AM dial in the Capital District), but the signal was lousy in Albany and became horrible the closer I got to the Schenectady area.
The siren, located on County Route 1 in Scriba near the entrance to the Novelis Aluminum plant, went off shortly after 3:00 a.m. and again just before 4:00 a.m. County 911 officials received a radio signal from the siren that indicated a malfunction.
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.
This predicted shutdown in 21 - centimeter radio signals will not occur everywhere at once, Loeb says.
The search for neutron stars has intensified because of a relatively small area, low in the northern midnight sky, from which the strangest radio signals yet received on Earth are being detected.
For more than a decade, scientists at Haystack Observatory have studied plasma plume phenomena using a ground - based technique called GPS - TEC, in which scientists analyze radio signals transmitted from GPS satellites to more than 1,000 receivers on the ground.
There the radio signals will excite electrons and turn them into waves of relatively hot ionized gas, or plasma, in a narrow slice of sky.
News leaked this weekend of a spike in radio signals coming from a sun - like star that could fit the profile for an intelligent, extraterrestrial source.
Small radio frequency (RF) coils strategically placed around a patient's head — the twisted copper wires shown in the image at right — act as antennas, detecting that hum and transmitting it to domino - sized green amplifiers, which read the signal and pass it on to an external computer.
With present techniques, teleportation is conceivable only with elementary particles, or theoretically, by encoding information about an object, transmitting the information to another place, such as by radio or electric signal, and creating a copy of the original object in the new location.
It was a total surprise to them; the idea of radio wave bursts had been abandoned after scientists in the»70s and»80s failed to locate such signals.
These neutral hydrogen atoms might also signal the approach of solar storms — gusts in the solar wind that can disrupt satellites, radio communications, and electrical power grids.
The number of wave crests arriving from Fast Radio Bursts per second — their «frequency» — is in the same range as that of radio sigRadio Bursts per second — their «frequency» — is in the same range as that of radio sigradio signals.
The SETI Institute has now trained a telescope array on the mysterious star for 2 weeks in search of alien radio signals.
With further refinements, he found a way for ships to talk to each other using Morse code — the quintessential pulsed signal — and in 1896, just 21, he traveled to England and set up a radio company, British Marconi.
The flamboyant Serbian - born engineer Nikola Tesla followed that approach and transmitted a radio signal across a short distance in 1893.
When radio arrived at the end of the 19th century, few thought that «wireless» communications, in which intangible signals could be sent through the air over long distances, would be competitive in a world dominated by the telegraph and telephone.
Fast, Cheap, and in Control If microdrones are to be truly handy, they will also have to be controllable well beyond the one - mile limit of the radio - frequency signals that aircraft like the Draganflyer currently employ.
We used steel tubes several inches in diameter, with many pounds of propellant, and radios inside so that we could pick up the signal from them.
That receiver, in turn, could broadcast the signals as radio waves to a nearby computer.
Underwritten by a $ 26 million donation by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, the array currently consists of 42 dishes, each 20 feet in diameter, which can be used to listen for signals from several stars in many different radio bands simultaneously.
As the spacecraft plunged through these orbits, a radio telescope in Argentina, run by the European Space Agency, NASA's partner on the mission, listened for tiny Doppler shifts in Cassini's signal.
For this year's solar eclipse, they will observe radio signals using an existing network of GPS receivers in Missouri, and intersperse it with small, cheap GPS receivers that are similar to the kind in most phones.
In addition, variations in Dawn's radio signal will be monitored to provide information about the gravitational pull — hence the internal structure — of the asteroidIn addition, variations in Dawn's radio signal will be monitored to provide information about the gravitational pull — hence the internal structure — of the asteroidin Dawn's radio signal will be monitored to provide information about the gravitational pull — hence the internal structure — of the asteroids.
Then he served two tours in Fallujah, Iraq, working with the 2nd Radio Battalion to intercept and analyze signals on local digital networks.
A constellation of more than two dozen GPS satellites broadcasts precise timing signals by radio to electronic GPS receivers which allow them to accurately determine their location (longitude, latitude, and altitude) in real time.
Originally developed by the US government for military navigation, satellite navigation systems are now widely used by anyone with a GNSS device, such as an in - car SatNav, mobile phone or handheld navigation unit, which can receive the radio signals that the satellites broadcast.
The new system, dubbed radiogenetics, uses a signal, in this case low - frequency radio waves or a magnetic field, to heat or move ferritin particles.
The array began operating in 2007, using low - cost electronics to combine the input from the many radio antennas and to comb through the resulting signal, simultaneously doing conventional radio astronomy and scanning for signals from ET.
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