When the first radios and telegraph lines were put into service, essentially the only way to communicate was to use Morse code. The first transmitters had extremely inefficient designs by today’s ...

Thanks to Samuel F.B. Morse, communication changed rapidly, and has been changing ever faster since. He invented the electric telegraph in 1832. It took six more years for him to standardize a code ...

Six years after El Pueblo motel opened its doors, with the country plunged into World War II the motel’s proprietor devised a ...

As humans began to explore outer space in the latter half of the 20th century, radio waves proved a powerful tool. Scientists could send out radio waves to communicate with satellites, rockets and ...

It has been 88 years since Earhart and Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific, but until now, the records of the search ...

Late in the nineteenth century, Guglielmo Marconi began experimenting with electromagnetic waves to send signals. At that time, the telegraph wire was the quickest way to get messages from here to ...

Vince Gilligan's new TV series begins with scientists monitoring a radio telescope and discovering something new. What follows is a unpredictable show that takes on some of life's biggest questions.

Bees obviously can’t use this skill on human level, but this progress could help scientists better grasp complex ...

The bees were split into two groups. For the first one, a short flash was the “dot” in Morse code, and it was associated with ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists found that bumblebees can tell the difference between short and long light flashes, ...

A new study is the first to show that an insect can differentiate between different durations of visual cues, like Morse code ...

Bees are not supposed to read code. Yet a new wave of experiments suggests that honeybees can track dot‑and‑dash style light ...