Wireless antennas -- those unobtrusive fixtures that allow us to chatter from our cell phones, surf on our PDAs and beep each other's pagers -- occupy a curious place in our urban landscape. They are ...

A London council is spending thousands of pounds on scientific tests in an attempt to see whether cell phone antennas (mobile phone masts) could have caused a cluster of cancer cases. Residents of ...

The flags were lowered to half-staff at City Hall following the death of Buck Delventhal — an extraordinary step. Sign up below to get Mission Local’s free newsletter, a daily digest of news you won’t ...

The mobile phone in your pocket or purse is part of a vast communications system that is mostly beyond our vision, much like the internet. But as journalist Andrew Blum explains in his new book Tubes: ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Most consumers weren’t giving much thought to cellular antennas before ...

The recent furor over the iPhone 4’s antenna has made consumers aware of the constraints designers face when trying to build sleek, compact gadgets that also get a good connection. Researchers at Rice ...

Physicist and frequent eFlea participant Eric Einarsson built a yagi antenna to boost the reception and transmission distance for his brother’s cell phone. Eric writes: Here is some information and ...

MUSKEGON COUNTY — The “crown” that appears to rest atop Mr. Smiley, the locally famous yellow water tower in Fruitport Township, does more than signify its royal status among the elevated water tanks ...

PASADENA – Considering the size of the new cell phone antenna at Oak Knoll Avenue and Alpine Street, residents might be forgiven for not noticing it. It’s a 5-foot tall gray cylindrical nub atop a ...

New T-Mobile cell phone towers soon could begin sprouting around Menlo Park, with the first one planned for a site on Sand Hill Road. The city’s planning commission Monday will review the national ...

The constraint: Tuck a 7-inch antenna inside the case without adding bulk.The solution: Print it like a chip.Year: 1998Weight: 4.1 ouncesTalk time: 2 hours 50 minutesIn the early 1990s, the cell phone ...