spectrum
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SpaceX is working to secure access to cell towers just weeks after buying more wireless spectrum.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
Fast Fourier transforms are then used to accurately recover the light spectrum.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
Leaders from across the political spectrum have paid tribute to Haines, who was first elected in 2019 and is well regarded by her peers.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
SpaceX has said it wants to move its Starlink satellite service beyond broadband, and the spectrum acquisition could make it a more serious threat to AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Natural harmonics are ‘hidden’ notes, usually quite high in pitch, which are found within any given sound, like the additional colours of the spectrum that are contained within white light.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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"The key insight was to go back to the mathematics and ask whether there was a fundamentally cleaner way to retrieve spectra," said Dr. Chunhui Yao, a lead author of the study.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
Nearly 30 hours of exposure time collected enough light for the team to identify extremely faint absorption features in the spectra of the distant galaxies.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
Their UV spectra contain fingerprints of chemical elements in their atmospheres while also revealing details about the stellar winds carrying material away from their surfaces.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
Brown has been modeling the climates and spectra of self-luminous giant planets.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
Moreover, we find that certain very specific colors are missing from stars’ spectra, and these missing colors may vary from star to star.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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“These surveys tend to include much broader spectrums of trans individuals, and we cannot be as certain that our results are as problematic in the broader group,” Dr. Frisch said.
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
“I’m questioning whether it is. … The Pride flag represents making space for all humans on all the spectrums, and this is where we’re going as a human species,” Cain said.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 14, 2023
Thermal emission spectrums of the planet’s daylight side will be compared to known rocks like basalt and granite to see if they can deduce a surface composition.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 3, 2022
During the last six decades, the religiosity of U.S. militarism has faded into a more generalized set of assumptions -- shared, in the current crisis, across traditional political spectrums.
From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2022
We're just different, like we exist on different spectrums.
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
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