Days after a Plainfield home with lights many believed were flashing “SOS” went viral, police revealed what is actually behind the mysterious display. The Will County Sheriff’s office released an ...

Morse code transmits information through sequences of dots, dashes, and spaces, allowing messages to travel long distances without spoken language. Samuel F.B. Morse developed the original system in ...

Videos on social media show Canadians reportedly standing at the United States-Canada border while holding an upside-down Canadian flag and using lights to Morse code “SOS” in response to the ...

It may be the ultimate SOS. Morse code is in distress. The language of dots and dashes has been the lingua franca of amateur radio, a vibrant community of technology buffs and hobbyists who have ...

Technically “SOS,” doesn’t officially stand for any of these phrases. It’s the international abbreviation for distress—not to be confused with an acronym (see acronym vs. abbreviation for the ...