In the early days of wireless LANs, the chief concern was throughput. The original 802.11 standard called for speeds only as high as 2Mbit/sec., and, yes, that was optimal, not typical performance. We ...

Visible light is just one part of the electromagnetic spectrum that astronomers use to study the universe. The James Webb Space Telescope was built to see infrared light, other space telescopes ...

IN a recent article in NATURE (May 21, p. 941), attention was directed to the widespread interference caused to radio reception by various classes of electrical apparatus. One of the sources of such ...

Christopher Gordon De Pree has received funding from National Science Foundation. Christopher R. Anderson receives funding from the National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, and National ...

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. Your brand ...

Associate Professor of Physics Jonathan Pober has spent the past 20 years detecting faint astronomical signals in radio waves that can provide information about the early universe. This task can be ...