A recent study analyzes data collected at 44 of the darkest places in the world, including the Canary Island Observatories, to develop the first complete reference method to measure the natural brightness of the night sky ...
Space Exploration
May 6, 2021
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Coded messages in invisible ink sound like something only found in espionage books, but in real life, they can have important security purposes. Yet, they can be cracked if their encryption is predictable. Now, researchers ...
Materials Science
May 5, 2021
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When investigators in the UK recorded the calls of migratory birds called thrushes at night, they found that call rates were up to five times higher over the brightest urban areas compared with darker villages.
Ecology
May 5, 2021
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Sea turtles in the Cayman Islands are recovering from the brink of local extinction, new research shows.
Ecology
May 4, 2021
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Among the first lessons any grade school science student learns is that white light is not white at all, but rather a composite of many photons, those little droplets of energy that make up light, from every color of the ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 23, 2021
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In two decades orbiting the Earth the International Space Station has become a cutting-edge cosmic laboratory, with astronauts researching everything from black holes to disease and even gardening in microgravity.
Space Exploration
Apr 21, 2021
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As artificial intelligence has attracted broad interest, researchers are focused on understanding how the brain accomplishes cognition so they can construct artificial systems with general intelligence comparable to humans' ...
General Physics
Apr 20, 2021
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EPFL scientists have developed AI-powered nanosensors that let researchers track various kinds of biological molecules without disturbing them.
Bio & Medicine
Apr 7, 2021
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Light pollution, or artificial light at night (ALAN), is a rapidly spreading form of environmental degradation that currently covers about 50% of the United States and 90% of Europe. It can have wide-ranging impacts to nocturnal ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 31, 2021
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3,938 moths are part of a major insect study based on artificial intelligence, and researchers from Aarhus University have just published their results in the scientific journal Sensors.
Plants & Animals
Mar 19, 2021
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