Israeli and Australian scientists have found that coral exposed to artificial light cannot detect moonlight and therefore fail to spawn. Their findings are published in the journal eLife.
Environment
Dec 15, 2015
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An international study involving researchers from the University of Granada (UGR), Spain, and the University of Krakow (Poland) has found that Spain's current regulations on light pollution are inadequate, as they fail to ...
Energy & Green Tech
May 10, 2019
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Artificial light at night negatively impacts thousands of species: beetles, moths, wasps and other insects that have evolved to use light levels as cues for courtship, foraging and navigation.
Ecology
Nov 18, 2019
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The globally increasing light pollution has negative effects on organisms and entire ecosystems. The consequences are especially hard on nocturnal insects, since their attraction to artificial light sources generally ends ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 13, 2016
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Whether wriggling your toes or lifting groceries, muscles in your body smoothly expand and contract. Some polymers can do the same thing—acting like artificial muscles—but only when stimulated by dangerously high voltages. ...
Polymers
Apr 12, 2023
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German cities emit several times less light per capita than comparably sized American cities, according to a recent publication in the journal Remote Sensing. The size of the gap grew with city size, as light per capita increased ...
Environment
Dec 29, 2014
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Melatonin controls the body clock—high melatonin levels make us feel tired in the evening. However, the hormone also plays an important role in animals' biological rhythms. Artificial light at night—light pollution—can ...
Environment
Apr 3, 2020
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Birds that produce faint chirps called flight calls during nighttime migration collide with illuminated buildings much more often than closely related species that don't produce such calls, according to a new analysis of ...
Ecology
Apr 2, 2019
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Scientists know that plants can actually "sense" day length, and "schedule" their growth to coincide with specific environmental conditions. These natural events are based on the circadian clock, a 24-hour system found in ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 14, 2011
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Using holograms created in digital microscopes and interpreted using artificial intelligence (AI), researchers can now follow the lives of microplankton at the individual level for the first time. The method is the result ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 1, 2022
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