Dot.” “Dash.” Short pulse, long pulse. Humans invented Morse code as a way to communicate using electrical signals. Now, bees ...
A new study is the first to show that an insect can differentiate between different durations of visual cues, like Morse code ...
Researchers say they will be able to test different models in the "miniature brains" smaller than one cubic millimeter.
In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists found that bumblebees can tell the difference between short and long light flashes, ...
The Titanic famously (or infamously) used Morse code to call out in distress at the end of its final voyage. Ships at sea and the land-based stations that supported them used Morse code for decades, ...
Which animal would make the best spy? Perhaps pigeons would be a good candidate – they have the relevant experience, after ...
Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have shown for the first time that an insect—the bumblebee Bombus ...
It may be the ultimate SOS--Morse Code is in distress. The language of dots and dashes has been the lingua franca of amateur radio, a vibrant community of technology buffs and hobbyists who have ...
In case you’re not a former sailor or ham radio operator, the above is not a typesetting snafu. Those are the dashes and dots (or “dits” and “dahs,” as telegraph operators often vocalize them) that ...
Through the crackle and fuzz of long-distance radio, Karl Thompson easily translated the steady dit-dah, dit-dah, dit-dah of Morse Code from across the Atlantic. Thompson, operating amateur station ...
My last post described the Morse code being laid down on Mars by the Curiosity Rover’s tire treads. I got a couple of messages on the theme of “Morse code? People still use that?” Many commercial and ...
It is well known that pictographic languages that use Hanzi, like Mandarin, are difficult to work with for computer input and ...