Media invite: Live performances and debates at `Sounding Out` - an international symposium on sound.
Journalists are invited to the first ever international symposium on sound being held at Staffordshire University in Stoke-on-Trent this Thursday, Friday and Saturday (July 11 - 13). The event will bring together film and radio professionals with academics to debate the role of sound in today`s media. The media may be particularly interested in... view more... (2002-07-09)
Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) For Car Radios
Fraunhofer IIS presented the first DRM chip design for car radios. This car radio solution will enable drivers to select their preferred radio program from hundreds of different radio stations. However, it is something more than purely listening to favorite music: the new radio formats offer multilingual support to ethnic news or talk programs. In... view more... (2005-01-10)
German Government funds digital broadcasting in short, medium and long wave
The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (bmb+f) will fund the project Radiomondo. During the next three years developments for Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) will be supported with 3.9 million Euro. The project consortium consists of the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS-A, Deutsche Telekom AG, Robert Bosch GmbH, Sony... view more... (2002-01-11)
New Government Funding To Help With Revolutionary Radio Wave Research
Revolutionary work in the hi-tech world of radio waves was given a boost today with Government funding towards commercial and industrial exploitation in the field. Science Minister Lord Sainsbury announced that a specific group would be set up to exploit the benefits from research and development of high power radio-frequency engineering. Among... view more... (2001-09-24)
Skid Marks in the Galaxy - Astronomers localise galactic particle accelerator
Radio galaxies are amongst the most luminous celestial objects - however, they mainly emit radio waves, not light. These occur when electrically charged particles travelling at almost the speed of light are slowed down, thereby losing energy. Until recently it was not known exactly where the particles reach such high speeds. A group of scientists... view more... (2002-10-16)
Software-defined radio simplifies mobile phones
Mobile phones are getting more and more complicated. One reason is that a new radio is needed for each standard-GSM, 3G, and WLAN. A simpler solution, a radio that can be programmed to cover all standards, is now being developed at the Stringent Research Center at Linköping University in Sweden. "We have come up with three concepts... view more... (2004-04-19)
Cassini cameras spot powerful new lightning storm on Saturn
Following the recent detection of Saturnian radio bursts by NASA's Cassini spacecraft that indicated a rare and powerful atmospheric storm, Cassini imaging scientists have spotted the storm in an unlikely fashion: they looked for it in the dark. view more (2006-02-15)
New discovery at Jupiter could help protect Earth-orbit satellites
Radio waves accelerate electrons within Jupiter's magnetic field in the same way as they do on Earth, according to new research published in Nature Physics this week. The discovery overturns a theory that has held sway for more than a generation and has important implications for protecting Earth-orbiting satellites. view more (2008-03-10)
NewsService Journaline: The Information Service for Digital Radio live at CeBIT
The new information service available for the digital radio systems DRM (Digital Rado Mondiale) and DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) will be presented at the BMBF booth. view more (2005-03-10)
Medical Imaging with 'Swiss Rolls'
Under Strict Embargo for 19:00 London GMT/14.00 US EST Thursday 1 February A novel magnetic material developed by British researchers may lead to dramatic improvements in the performance of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) systems. Writing in the journal Science today they describe initial experiments confirming the exotic nature of the material... view more... (2001-02-01)
Housecat-sized Siberian tiger cubs get collared
Scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and their Russian colleagues from the Russian Far East recently fitted three wild 40-day-old Siberian tiger cubs with tiny radio-collars, marking the youngest wild tigers to be tracked by scientists. view more (2005-10-26)
US satellite protection scheme could affect global communications
A proposed US system to protect satellites from solar storms or high-altitude nuclear detonations could cause side-effects that lead to radio communication blackouts, according to new research. view more (2006-08-15)
Rare radio supernova in nearby galaxy is nearest supernova in five years
The chance discovery last month of a rare radio supernova - an exploding star seen only at radio wavelengths and undetected by optical or X-ray telescopes - underscores the promise of new, more sensitive radio surveys to find supernovas hidden by gas and dust. view more (2009-05-28)
Mysterious energy burst stuns astronomers
In a shock finding, astronomers using CSIRO's Parkes telescope have detected a huge burst of radio energy from the distant universe that could open up a new field in astrophysics. view more (2007-09-28)
Frantic activity revealed in dusty stellar factories
Thanks to the Very Large Telescope's acute and powerful near-infrared eye, astronomers have uncovered a host of new young, massive and dusty stellar nurseries in nearby galaxy NGC 253. The centre of this galaxy appears to harbour a twin of our own Milky Way's supermassive black hole. view more (2009-01-21)
Physicists and engineers search for new dimension
The universe as we currently know it is made up of three dimensions of space and one of time, but researchers in the Department of Physics and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech are exploring the possibility of an extra dimension. view more (2008-03-11)
Arecibo joins global network to create 6,000-mile telescope
On May 22, Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico joined other telescopes in North America, South America, Europe and Africa in simultaneously observing the same targets, simulating a telescope more than 6,800 miles (almost 11,000 kilometers) in diameter. view more (2008-06-11)
NASA Balloon Mission Tunes in to a Cosmic Radio Mystery
Listening to the early universe just got harder. A team led by Alan Kogut of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., today announced the discovery of cosmic radio noise that booms six times louder than expected. view more (2009-01-08)
Optical Solution Revives Hands Free Mobile Telephones
Hands free sets for mobile phones may be on the verge of a big comeback thanks to new research by the University of Warwick. Many people used hands free sets in an attempt to avoid what they perceived as a microwave radiation risk from holding a mobile phone close to one`s head. However when it was pointed out that the standard wire based hands... view more... (2002-09-02)
Random antenna arrays boost emergency communications
First responders could boost their radio communications quickly at a disaster site by setting out just four extra transmitters in a random arrangement to significantly increase the signal power at the receiver, according to theoretical analyses, simulations and proof-of-concept experiments performed at the National Institute of Standards and... view more... (2009-02-26)
|
|
