The vision of spiderlings is nearly as keen as their parents: study
Baby jumping spiders can hunt prey just like their parents do because they have vision nearly as good.
Plants & Animals
Jul 31, 2019
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News tagged with light sensitivity
A new way to deliver light-sensitive drugs to combat the problem of antibiotic resistance
Queen's University researcher P. Andrew Evans has uncovered a new process to deliver antibiotics using pollen to shield them.
Biochemistry
Jun 13, 2019
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Color vision found in fish that live in near darkness
An international team of researchers discovered a previously unknown visual system that may allow color vision in deep, dark waters where animals were presumed to be colorblind. The research appears on the cover of the May ...
Plants & Animals
May 9, 2019
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How to use gravitational waves to measure the expansion of the universe
On the morning of Aug. 17, 2017, after traveling for more than a hundred million years, the aftershocks from a massive collision in a galaxy far, far away finally reached Earth.
Astronomy
Mar 29, 2019
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Color vision variation in guppies influences female mate preference
A variety of animals have male-specific ornament traits and these ornaments are favored by female choice. Which male traits are preferred by females often varies among females. Genetic mechanisms that create and maintain ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 13, 2018
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Expanding the optogenetics toolkit
Controlling individual brain cells using light-sensitive proteins has proven to be a powerful tool for probing the brain's complexities. As this branch of neuroscience has expanded, so has the demand for a diverse palette ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 18, 2018
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Discovery of a simple mechanism for color detection
Color vision, consisting of ocular color detection, is achieved with complicated neural mechanisms in the eyes. Researchers from Osaka City University in Japan have found color detection with a simple mechanism in the fish ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 15, 2018
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The many structures of the light-active biomolecules
How the light-sensitive part of the biomolecule phytochrome changes from a light-adapted state to a dark-adapted state has been investigated by researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and Philipps-Universität Marburg. So ...
Biochemistry
Oct 9, 2018
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Swift's telescope reveals births, deaths and collisions of stars through through 1 million snapshots in UV
Imagine if the color camera had never been invented and all our images were in black and white. The world would still look beautiful, but incomplete. For thousands of years, that was how humans saw the universe. On Earth, ...
Astronomy
Aug 21, 2018
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Optical pressure detector could improve robot skin, wearable devices and touch screens
A new type of pressure sensor based on light could allow the creation of sensitive artificial skins to give robots a better sense of touch, wearable blood-pressure monitors for humans and optically transparent touch screens ...
Optics & Photonics
Aug 14, 2018
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