Light exposure key for growing successful houseplants
Gardeners hear it often enough: right plant, right place.
Plants & Animals
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Scientists synthesize light with new intrinsic chirality to tell mirror molecules apart
Light is the fastest way to distinguish right- and left-handed chiral molecules, which has important applications in chemistry and biology. However, ordinary light only weakly senses molecular handedness. Researchers from ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 29, 2019
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ZnS scintillation detector with wavelength shifting fiber readout
Detectors for reflectometry need to detect a lot of neutrons in a very short space of time. This means they need to be designed with very high count rate capabilities. Unfortunately, current detectors need to improve to meet ...
General Physics
Sep 20, 2019
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Barn owls reflect moonlight in order to stun their prey
Ecosystems that are bathed in light during the day change profoundly at night. As the sun fades from the land, nocturnal life emerges, with the barn owl (Tyto alba) among them. Barn owls are iconic nocturnal birds of prey ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 3, 2019
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Cheops passes final review before shipment to launch site
The Characterising Exoplanet Satellite, Cheops, has successfully passed the final analysis review for its launch on a Soyuz rocket from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
Space Exploration
Jul 30, 2019
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A toxic chemical in marine ecosystems turns out to play a beneficial role
Advocates of healthy eating often extol the benefits of adding antioxidants to one's diet. These compounds are thought to suppress "free radical" molecules in the body that can age cells as a response to stress.
Environment
Jul 22, 2019
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Here's a fact: We went to the moon in 1969
Fifty years after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon, some people insist it never happened and was all a big hoax by the U.S. government.
Space Exploration
Jul 11, 2019
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Total solar eclipses reveal the dark and stormy side of the sun we never see
In astronomy, we have a common saying: "good luck, and clear skies." For an eclipse chaser like me, this is especially important. We have two minutes and no second chance—one small cloud can spoil everything.
Space Exploration
Jul 2, 2019
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Two neutron stars collided near the solar system billions of years ago
Astrophysicists Szabolcs Marka at Columbia University and Imre Bartos at the University of Florida, have identified a violent collision of two neutron stars 4.6 billion years ago as the likely source of some of the most coveted ...
Astronomy
May 2, 2019
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Pinpointing Gaia to enable the most accurate map ever of more than a billion stars
Gaia, operated by the European Space Agency (ESA, surveys the sky from orbit to create the largest, most precise, three-dimensional map of our Galaxy. One year ago, the Gaia mission produced its much-awaited second data release, ...
Astronomy
May 2, 2019
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