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Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have shown for the first time that an insect—the bumblebee Bombus ...

You might have to provide your own wrist straps and eye clamps, but if you want to learn Morse code, [Seth] has a web site for you. You can get code practice using ...

FERGUSON, Mo. -- Staccato clicks tapped from an old brass gadget. Derek Cohn, his ear fixed upon the mysterious rhythm, jotted letters onto paper. From Bloomington, Ill., came the weather report: ...

Morse code is a communication system developed by Samuel Morse, an American inventor, in the late 1830s. The code uses a combination of short and long pulses – dots and dashes, respectively – that ...

It’s SOS time for Morse code. After a century and a half as a lingua franca of long-distance communication, the deliberate dots and dashes are destined for obscurity. The ubiquitous telephone ...