Rainbows are formed when light bends—or refracts—as it enters and exits a water droplet. The amount that the light bends depends on the color of the light, resulting in white light being separated into a beautiful spectrum ...
Optics & Photonics
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Many countries could be using less nitrogen fertilizer in their agriculture without compromising their crop yields, as an international research team headed up by ETH scientists David Wüpper and Robert Finger are demonstrating.
Environment
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Pressure is increasing on the global horse-racing industry to reconsider the use of whips in the sport.
Plants & Animals
Nov 12, 2020
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Using NASA's Chandra spacecraft, astronomers have discovered three new ultraviolet-bright radio-quiet quasars at high redshift and measured their basic X-ray properties. The newly found quasi-stellar object turns out to be ...
A team of researchers from the CSIRO Energy, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization and Museums Victoria has documented multiple sightings of bigfin squid in the depths of the Great Australian Bight. ...
"From words to deeds" could and should be Joe Biden's slogan for climate. Now that the United States, and the world with them, have (at least temporarily) averted the danger of a presidency that would have brought our planet ...
Environment
Nov 12, 2020
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A team of researchers has discovered more about the grain-scale fluid connectivity beneath the Earth's surface, shedding new light on fluid circulation and seismic velocity anomalies in subduction zones.
Earth Sciences
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The devastating environmental impact of plastic clothing hangers has been revealed for the first time—with calls for the fashion industry to urgently address the issue.
Environment
Nov 12, 2020
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The construction of the Mu2e experiment at the Department of Energy's Fermilab has reached an important milestone. A crucial section of magnets for the experiment, including components from Italy, Japan and the United States, ...
General Physics
Nov 12, 2020
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Dystopic policy in Australia is often hidden in plain sight.
Economics & Business
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