Tag: Telecommunications
When fishing boats go dark at sea, they’re often committing crimes...
Heather Welch, University of California, Santa Cruz
In January 2019, the Korean-flagged fishing vessel Oyang 77 sailed south toward...
A large solar storm could knock out the power grid and...
David Wallace, Mississippi State University
On Sept. 1 and 2, 1859, telegraph systems around the world failed catastrophically. The...
How 5G puts airplanes at risk – an electrical engineer explains
Prasenjit Mitra, Penn State
New high-speed cellphone services have raised concerns of interference with aircraft operations, particularly as aircraft...
Got $1.2T to invest in roads and other infrastructure? Here’s how...
Anna Nagurney, University of Massachusetts Amherst
The American economy is underpinned by networks.
Road networks carry...
How the T-Mobile-Sprint merger will increase inequality
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology
A federal judge gave his blessing to the US$26.5 billion merger between T-Mobile and Sprint on Feb. 11,...
Simply elegant, Morse code marks 175 years and counting
Eddie King, University of South Carolina
The first message sent by Morse code’s dots and dashes across a long distance traveled from Washington, D.C., to...
Russia isn’t the first country to protest Western control over global...
Sarah Nelson, Vanderbilt University
As the international community becomes increasingly concerned about misinformation and data breaches, the Russian government has announced plans to test its...
Why do people still use fax machines?
Jonathan Coopersmith, Texas A&M University
The fax machine is a symbol of obsolete technology long superseded by computer networks – but faxing is actually...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
