Owner of electromagnetic retreat joins neighbours in beautiful Somerset village to fight new phone mast

Compton Dundon Residents Against the Mast has been formed to stop Telefonica and Vodafone The owner of a retreat centre for people with electro-sensitivity is among the objectors to a new phone mast in a beautiful Somerset village. David Taylor runs the EarthSpirit Centre in Compton Dundon, which provides solace and holistic therapy for people …

ViaSat-2: Satellite goliath goes into orbit

By Jonathan Amos, BBC Science Correspondent The most powerful commercial broadband satellite ever built has just gone into orbit on an Ariane rocket. ViaSat-2, which is to be stationed above the Americas, has a total throughput capacity of about 300 gigabits per second. The spacecraft was part of a dual payload on the Ariane flight. It …

Bacteria, mobile phones & WiFi – a deadly combination?

Bacteria exposed to mobile phone and WiFi radiation turned resistant to antibiotics, science demonstrates. The implications of this are chilling and may easily explain the on-going huge and highly frightening development into more and more antibiotics-resistant microorganisms around the world. That claims Olle Johansson, associate professor at the Karolinska Institute, Department of Neuroscience, and head …

BMW wages war on ‘electro smog’

Munich’s research and innovations boffins warn against unlimited electro-magnetic radiation. BMW’s Vehicle Research and Innovations Centre, known by its German acronomym ‘FIZ’ (pictured), is on the frontline of a battle to contain electro-magnetic radiation – known within the organisation as ‘electro smog’. Ultra-high frequency and microwave radiation waves are all around us, says BMW spokesman …

CERN upgrades WiFi infrastructure to support researchers on the move

Matthew Finnegan | May 17, 2017 The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) is upgrading its wireless broadband network in order to support thousands of researchers using mobile devices while moving around its campus buildings. There are more than 12,000 staff, visiting researchers and contract workers onsite at CERN’s physics laboratory in Geneva each day, …