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Instead of generating a new signal or amplifying the old one, the panel reshapes the path of radio waves already present in the environment.
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New Atlas, 19 June 2026
For decades, observatories have recorded brief-but-bright flashes of radio waves—fast radio bursts, or FRBs—whose origin on the sky astronomers have managed to pinpoint in only a handful of cases.
—Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 18 June 2026
The team followed this up with an investigation using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a collection of 66 radio wave antennas in northern Chile.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 18 June 2026
All that data would need to be sent between Earth and these data centers – and between the data centers themselves – using radio waves or laser communications systems.
—Sven Bilén, The Conversation, 16 June 2026
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New Atlas, 19 June 2026
For decades, observatories have recorded brief-but-bright flashes of radio waves—fast radio bursts, or FRBs—whose origin on the sky astronomers have managed to pinpoint in only a handful of cases.
—Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 18 June 2026
The team followed this up with an investigation using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a collection of 66 radio wave antennas in northern Chile.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 18 June 2026
All that data would need to be sent between Earth and these data centers – and between the data centers themselves – using radio waves or laser communications systems.
—Sven Bilén, The Conversation, 16 June 2026
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“Radio wave.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/radio%20wave. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.
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radio wave
noun
ra·dio wave
ˈrād-ē-ō-ˌwāv 
: an electromagnetic wave with radio frequency
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