When Samuel Morse sent the Bible passage "What hath God wrought" from the basement of the Capitol in Washington D.C. to Alfred Vail in Baltimore in May of 1844, he might not have suspected that Vail's ...

The first message sent by Morse code's dots and dashes across a long distance traveled from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore on Friday, May 24, 1844-175 years ago. It signaled the first time in human ...

Cells experience many different types of stress, such as starvation or stress caused by too much salt or too high a temperature. Insulin signals respond to such stress signals by sending the protein ...

Morse's 1837 telegraph receiver prototype, built with a canvas-stretcher Photo courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution Archives A crowd of hushed spectators packed into the small red factory house at ...

Larry Kahaner - Larry Kahaner is an American journalist and author who resides in Bethesda, Maryland. Steve Galchutt shows off the custom-made low-wattage transmitter he uses on his treks. Chase Brush ...