We did a lot of talking about Ford's new all-electric F-150 Lightning last week, as that's a Big Deal in the automotive world — you read the articles, you know the deal. One thing I'm not sure you did ...

If you are, like me, a car nerd of a certain age, you may remember some '70s-era General Motors products with little wires embedded in the windshield. Two thin wires running parallel up the middle of ...

DETROIT — An automotive appendage that often goes unnoticed — unless it loses a battle with the automatic car wash — is disappearing in the face of changing technology, tastes and economics. The ...

Q: I need an indoor AM/FM antenna for my 30 year-old Technics receiver. It works well enough for the most part, but I have trouble receiving radio on either band. I purchased a TERK PIB amplified ...

A paper published in Nature this week details how researchers have taken a common antenna design and replicated it on the the nanoscale level. When a regular TV aerial that handles radio frequencies ...

The signal comes in loud and clear, but Houston police officers using new portable radios that cost the city millions of dollars say the antennas can literally be a pain. The new and stiffer antennas ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. In November 2014, the Leonid meteor shower will streak across the ...

"Whip" antennas—those long metal rods that used to extend from our cars—look pretty cool in a Smokey and the Bandit kind of way. But for military vehicles, they're not such a great solution. Troops in ...

When broadcasting was in its infancy, amplitude modulation (AM) was the principal modulation system being researched and developed. Once efficient generation of useful RF signals was discovered and ...

You might have read about people cutting their cable-TV bills by watching shows online, using all kinds of high-tech gear and services. That hoopla, while very cool, usually overlooks a good ...