City light pollution causes spiders’ brains to shrink, new study finds
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As night falls, the nocturnal half of the animal kingdom begins its day. Nocturnal species are ...
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Nanostructures enable on-chip mixer of electronic frequencies and light waves
Caption: The demonstration of a lightwave electronic mixer at petahertz frequencies is a first step toward accelerating communications technologies and ...
Discovery of doughnut-shaped region inside Earth’s core sheds light on planet’s magnetic field
Ray path of the K* function, OC heterogeneity diagram and absolute travel time residuals PKIKP. Credit: Scientific progress (2024). DOI: ...
Ancient sea cow attacked by both primitive crocodile and shark sheds new light on prehistoric food chains
A young tiger shark. Credit: Albert Kok/Wikipedia A new study showing how a prehistoric sea cow was preyed upon by ...
Tiny new lasers fill a long-standing gap in the rainbow of visible light colors, opening the way to new applications
Series of visible light colors generated by a microring resonator. Credit: S. Kelley/NIST Making green lasers isn't easy. Scientists have ...
Reconfigurable sensor can detect particles 0.001 times the wavelength of light
The tunable and reconfigurable EP detection system operates on a single plasmonic resonator. This schematic illustration shows a conventional sensor ...
Ancient DNA sheds light on genetic diversity of post-Roman elites
Collegno, tomb 143. “Multiple” iron belt elements with silver and brass inlays. Credit: Caterina Giostra A new study of ancient ...
Police shed light on cause of porn star Sophia Leone’s death
Five months after the death of pornographic actress Sophia Leone, the cause of her death is now known. • Also ...
Observations of zebra finch courtship shed light on later learning
McGill researchers divided zebra finches into groups to see how early life experiences affect learning. Credit: Sarah Woolley A new ...
New simulations shed light on stellar destruction by supermassive black holes
Formation of a disk in an isentropic simulation (effective radiative cooling) with a rotating black hole (a = 0.99, θ ...
