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 ...

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 ...

Morse code creator Samuel F.B. Morse made long-distance chats almost instantaneous with his co-invention of the telegraph, which he patented in 1847. While he’s best known for revolutionizing ...

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 ...

Dexter first began writing in 1972, creating a detective inspector who’s passionate about the arts and whose intellect may be wasted in his position. Morse and partner DS Lewis of the Thames Valley ...