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The recent fascination with the shortwave channel comes amid fears of a nuclear armageddon, primarily between the US and ...

The results from the 1962 Starfish Prime test serve as a warning of what might happen if Earth’s magnetic field gets blasted ...

GILLIGAN’S ISLAND, the a beloved TV show from the '60s, followed seven cast-aways on an island, a plot that executives of ...

Sunspot AR3474 detonated with an X1.8 solar flare on November 4, sending an ultraviolet wave silencing South America's ...

Around 250 million years ago, one of Earth's largest known volcanic events set off The Great Dying: the planet's worst mass extinction event. The eruptions spewed large amounts of greenhouse gases ...

Fuzzy guitar and mandolin twangs lull you into the ’80s as actor Upendra’s lines sparks a snap of recognition, radio-esque ...

NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission captured an X1.1-class solar flare. See time-lapse footage of the ...

Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave talk about spider web architecture, storytelling and memory, and why more TV pixels may not translate to a better viewing experience.

Hosts Nina Khrushcheva and Max Kennedy, relatives of the men who took us to the edge of unimaginable devastation in the 1960s ...

New research draws a direct line from rising CO2 emissions to future risks for communication systems and satellite operations ...

Researchers at Kyushu University have found that rising CO2 levels in our atmosphere could lead to future disruptions in ...