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Weather radar sends out pulses of radio waves and detects what bounces back.
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Brandi D. Addison, The Providence Journal, 29 Sep. 2025
Weather radar sends out pulses of radio waves and detects what bounces back.
—Brandi D. Addison, Nashville Tennessean, 26 Sep. 2025
This season, in a cosmic convergence of radio waves, several of our mightiest long-running culture series—some of which predate the podcast itself—are observing milestones at once.
—Jane Bua, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2025
Besides there being less interference than at radio waves, optical and infrared lasers also support quantum encryption — what's known as QKD, or quantum key distribution, in which the key to encrypting the data is encoded into the quantum superposition of the photons.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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Brandi D. Addison, The Providence Journal, 29 Sep. 2025
Weather radar sends out pulses of radio waves and detects what bounces back.
—Brandi D. Addison, Nashville Tennessean, 26 Sep. 2025
This season, in a cosmic convergence of radio waves, several of our mightiest long-running culture series—some of which predate the podcast itself—are observing milestones at once.
—Jane Bua, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2025
Besides there being less interference than at radio waves, optical and infrared lasers also support quantum encryption — what's known as QKD, or quantum key distribution, in which the key to encrypting the data is encoded into the quantum superposition of the photons.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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“Radio wave.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/radio%20wave. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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radio wave
noun
ra·dio wave
ˈrād-ē-ō-ˌwāv 
: an electromagnetic wave with radio frequency
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