image: Mangoes exposed to blue light for several days were redder and sweeter (top) than those placed in the dark (bottom). seen Following Credit: Adapted from Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2022, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.2c07137 We’re often told to limit our “screen time,” in part because of the harsh blue light screens can emit. Plants …
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Scientists have discovered at least two genetic pathways leading to the same physical outcome for a species of Solomon Islands flycatcher. Research indicates that there is more than one way to build a blackbird. Nature often finds a way when it comes to the biological necessities of survival and reproduction. Sometimes there is more than …
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A Canadian university is embarking on a project to fundamentally change physics as a science by “decolonizing light.” A group of researchers from all disciplines at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, are working on the project, which aims to change the way the science of physics is viewed as an academic discipline, according to a …
The new research has made progress in understanding the mechanism behind a type of dementia that affects young people. New research offers insight into the basic biology of frontotemporal dementia caused by a particular genetic mutation. In one look : New findings offer insight into the fundamental biology of frontotemporal dementia, a devastating neurodegenerative disease …
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In 1905, 26-year-old Albert Einstein proposed something quite outrageous: that light could be both a wave and a particle. This idea is as strange as it sounds. How could something be two such different things? A particle is small and confined in a tiny space, while a wave is something that propagates. The particles collide …
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Samples of the asteroid Ryugu analyzed at the IPGP. Credit: © IPGP Nearly two years after the Japanese mission Hayabusa2 returned to Earth, samples from the asteroid Ryugu continue to reveal valuable information about the history of the early solar system. A study conducted by scientists from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, …
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Banner Image: A powerful green laser helps visualize aerosol plumes from a toilet as it is flushed. (Credit: Patrick Campbell/CU Boulder) Thanks to new research from CU Boulder, scientists are seeing the impact of flushing in a whole new light — and now the world can, too. Using bright green lasers and camera equipment, a …
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This is the third in a series of articles exploring the birth of quantum physics. Light is a paradox. It is associated with wisdom and knowledge, with the divine. The Enlightenment offered the light of reason as the guiding path to truth. We have evolved to identify visual patterns with great precision – to distinguish …
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