In October 2023, a two-lane rural road near Semenyih, Malaysia, lit up—not with traditional streetlamps, but with ...

Here’s a simple and interesting idea that increases the visual persistence of a laser scanner image. Using glow-in-the-dark paint, [Daito Manabe] prepares a surface so that the intense light of a ...

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I recently received a question about the use of technology in ecological research, which led to a discussion about blacklights. I wrote a column five years ago about a nighttime adventure in a ...

"It's possible we will see the new data and confirm one theory over the other — or maybe we'll find nothing, in which case it ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, a faint and widespread glow of gamma rays has puzzled astronomers for decades. The light could ...