electromagnetic radiation

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Critics built a website that argued, among other things, that the project would unleash dangerous electromagnetic radiation.

From Salon • Apr. 27, 2026

The ranges allowed are narrow, far more restrictive than the sort of electromagnetic compatibility standards used on Earth, and unintended electromagnetic radiation can leak from electrical devices and systems on satellites.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2025

Solar flares are made up of electromagnetic radiation that travel from the Sun at the speed of light and can reach Earth in about eight minutes.

From BBC • Oct. 4, 2024

Noise, as these disturbances are called, can arise, for example, from electromagnetic radiation, which can distort or destroy the quantum states being transmitted.

From Science Daily • Apr. 2, 2024

In the room, a female graduate student evidently immune to the smell sat working on a spectrograph, an instrument for measuring electromagnetic radiation.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik