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 …
By Ben Riley-Smith Church spires in Britain’s most remote communities are to be rigged up with broadband satellites in a new government drive to boost internet connection. The Church of England has offered use of its 16,000 churches to help the Tories deliver on a promise to bring superfast broadband to 95 per cent of properties. …
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 …
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 …
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, …
Kathrein introduces an innovative solution for mobile communication in city centres. In collaboration with Swisscom, Switzerland’s leading telecom provider, Kathrein has developed “Kathrein Street Connect”, an in-ground antenna system that enhances mobile capacity at hotspots with high data traffic. Following a trial period in Bern, the antenna will be brought into operation in selected cities …
Lynne Wycherley 12th January 2017 As Kraków, Poland’s second city, takes steps to protect its citizens from rising electromagnetic ‘smog’ from mobile phones, wifi, Bluetooth, smart meters and other devices, Lynne Wycherley summarises 2016’s news highlights on the emerging bio-risks of rising exposure to non-ionisiong radiation. For how much longer can governments continue to ignore …
Lynne Wycherley 11th April 2017 ‘Smart meters’ looked like a great idea, writes Lynne Wycherley, giving us more control over our energy use. The downside? They emit as many as 14,000 short bursts of intense microwave radiation a day, disrupting cellular electrochemistry and causing health symptoms from migraine to tinnitus, insomnia, dizziness, anxiety, chest pain, …
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