In a study at the University of Twente, researchers discovered a way to scatter light in a special, symmetrical way using ...

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Therefore, droughts will last longer, cover wider areas and be even drier ... and the National Science Foundation. Higher temperatures caused by anthropogenic climate change turned an ordinary ...

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“Lumen: The Art and Science of Light,” at the Getty Center, is a visually magnificent (and I use the word judiciously) show. The exhibition, curated by Kristen Collins and Nancy K ...

Lecturer, Pharmacology, Women's Health, School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Western Australia For millennia, humans had one obvious and reliable source of light – the Sun – and we ...