We haven’t heard anything from alien civilisations, but perhaps they’ve heard us.
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Eight decades after missing aviator Amelia Earhart was declared dead, technologies still don’t quite track every airplane all over the globe.
Astronomers found something not predicted by current theory when they took a closer look at the emissions from a neutron star with a very strong magnetic field.
Did your holiday gift list include radiation-shielding undies to protect your privates from cellphone radio waves? A radiation expert explains they’re unnecessary – your phone won’t affect your fertility.
To the naked eye the universe we can see on a clear night is dotted with thousands of stars. See through radio eyes, then things look very different.
The Murchison Widefield Array sits in remote Western Australia far from noisy civilisation so it can help us understand the universe by tuning into radio waves from the distant cosmos.
New research provides a compact but powerful way for Mars rovers to communicate directly with Earth via an array of smaller antenna elements, bypassing the need for an intermediary.
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Senior Research Scientist, Australia Telescope National Facility Science, CSIRO
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Professor, Radio Astronomy, University of Sydney
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University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona
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SKA-Low Senior Commissioning Scientist and Adjunct Associate Professor, Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy, Curtin University
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Timothy J. Jorgensen is a Friend of The Conversation.
Director of the Health Physics and Radiation Protection Graduate Program and Professor of Radiation Medicine, Georgetown University
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Postdoctoral Scholar in Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
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John Curtin Distinguished Professor (Radio Astronomy), Curtin University
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Professor, Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy, Curtin University
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Professor of Electrical Engineering/Electromagnetics, University of California, Los Angeles
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Associate Dean for Research, Coventry University
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Director Radiation Research and Advice, Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA), and Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Wollongong
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Fundamental Physics in Radio Astronomy, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy
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Professor of English and Digital Humanities (Ret.), University of South Florida
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Research Fellow in Astronomy, The University of Western Australia
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Radio Astronomer, Curtin University