Today, the signal is casually tossed into texts during dating disasters or outfit emergencies, but its roots come from genuine life-or-death situations at sea. SOS entered official use in 1905 under ...

"Save On Socks (at Sal's Irregular Sock Emporium)!" These are all things that "SOS," the international abbreviation for distress, does not stand for. Best known for its appearances in desert island ...

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 ...

The BBC News Magazine has an interesting look at changes in distress communications in the article Save our SOS. It notes it’s been 100 years since “SOS” became the standard signal for ships in ...

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 ...

Morse code, the dots-and-dashes signalling system first used at sea on the Titanic and long since consigned to the scrapheap, made a triumphant comeback this week in the rescue of a stranded fisherman ...

"SOS": it's the universal signal for a sinking ship, being stranded in the wilderness, and sometimes even a bad date. But what does "SOS" actually stand for? Your mind might jump to “Save Our Souls” ...