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The Colorful Bioengineered Succulents That Actually Glow In The Dark

You've spent a ton of time in the garden this season, perfecting everything your eyes can see and your hands can touch. By daylight, your sprawling outdoor paradise is a gorgeous sight to behold, but ...
The New York Times

Fighting for ‘The Right to Night’ Under Starry, Rural Skies

Industrialization in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula has some residents pushing for protection of the region’s celestial splendor. The night sky above Eagle Harbor, a village in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula ...
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9 cozy winter adventures for families who hate the cold (mostly indoors)

If you hate the cold, but your kids bounce off the walls by January, you are not alone. You... The post 9 Cozy Winter ...

On the Arizona Trail, rough tracks and changing climate test the limits of people and land

Will people continue to hike and bike the Arizona Trail? Extreme weather and land use challenges may test the limits.
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James Webb Space Telescope could illuminate dark matter in a way scientists didn't realize

Smooth filaments stretching for many light-years, seen by the powerful space telescope, could indicate what the right "recipe ...
Time

What Makes Stuff Glow in the Dark? And Is It Safe?

Glow-in-the-dark stars feel like a staple of childhood. You may have stuck them to your bedroom ceiling in fifth grade and then discovered them, on a visit home decades later, still lighting up ...
Brown University

LZ experiment sets new record in the hunt for dark matter, glimpses neutrinos from the sun’s core

With contributions from Brown faculty and students, the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment analyzed the largest dataset ever collected by ...

Scientists Map the Invisible Universe, Revealing New Clues About Dark Matter and Dark Energy

By studying faint distortions in galaxy shapes across a vast region of sky, scientists probed the hidden structure of the universe. In the standard picture of the universe, nearly everything is hidden ...
TechSpot

The Tor project is rebuilding one of the oldest cryptographic algorithms powering the dark web

TL;DR: Although often labeled a "dark web" associated with criminal activity and illicit marketplaces, Tor is an invaluable tool for protecting online privacy. Developers are now working to make the ...
Science Daily

Scientists may have found dark matter after 100 years of searching

Nearly a century after astronomers first proposed dark matter to explain the strange motions of galaxies, scientists may finally be catching a glimpse of it. A University of Tokyo researcher analyzing ...
Live Science

'No easy explanation': Scientists are debating a 70-year-old UFO mystery as new images come to light

Two new peer-reviewed papers claim thousands of unexplained light flashes in vintage Palomar telescope images show statistical ties to nuclear tests and UFO reports. Not everyone agrees with the paper ...
IFLScience

Have We Finally "Seen" Dark Matter? Galactic Gamma-Ray Halo May Be First Direct Evidence Of Universe’s Invisible "Glue"

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...