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17 votes
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Seeing infrared: scientists create contact lenses that grant ‘super-vision’
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Killing viruses with light, with Jacob Swett
6 votes -
Google’s Taara is launching a new chip to deliver high-speed Internet with light
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From polar night to midnight sun, Finland's deep connection with light and dark has inspired a century of pioneering lamp designs
9 votes -
If eyes emitted light, could they still see?
Ok, this is one of those thoughts I have in my brain and that I can't quite get rid of. It breaks down into a couple of questions. For the purposes of this, I'm aware that what eyes see is the...
Ok, this is one of those thoughts I have in my brain and that I can't quite get rid of.
It breaks down into a couple of questions. For the purposes of this, I'm aware that what eyes see is the reflection of light bouncing off objects, but I'm curious the impact on the visibility of both objects and other lights.A. If eyes emitted any light, could they still see anything at all?
B. If eyes emitted, for example, red light, could they see everything except red items? What about red lights? Does this change if the light is green or violet?
B.1. If they can't red things would they just be invisible?
B.2. If they can't see red lights, would it matter if the red light they're seeing is brighter or dimmer, and would it still be an invisible/blank space?
C. I'm not sure how infrared interacts here but I know animals that sense infrared do emit it, is there a reason that's different, if it's different.The internet is mostly not super helpful with this, since eyes don't emit light, just reflect it and look glowy, but yeah, anyway... thanks for entertaining my weird fixation.
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I bought a 1,000,000,000 fps video camera to watch light move
8 votes -
Kansas City receives new streetcars for Main Street extension
12 votes -
Police in Norway say four people were injured when a tram jumped the rails and crashed into an electronic device store in central Oslo
7 votes -
Goodbye, floppies - San Francisco pays Hitachi $212 million to remove 5.25-inch disks from its light rail service
30 votes -
Mass transit on orbital boulevards
6 votes -
Why is the speed of light so fast?
26 votes -
The rapidly growing tram system of Helsinki – taking a look at the network's history, lines, technical details, tram fleet, ridership, and the future
12 votes -
The 2024 European Tram Driver Championships
15 votes -
Black holes can’t be created by light
16 votes -
Helsinki's incredibly well executed Jokeri light rail project – finished way ahead of schedule and costs lower than initially budgeted
24 votes -
I made the world's blackest flipbook
11 votes -
Why every city wants a Wrigley Field
10 votes -
Safer Sunscreen: Stanford researchers explore novel approach to sustainable sun protection
13 votes -
Does light itself truly have an infinite lifetime?
10 votes -
More exposure to artificial, bright, outdoor night-time light linked to higher stroke risk
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The small Norwegian city of Bergen has a competent light rail system – let's take a look at the Bybanen in depth
5 votes -
Why flying insects gather at artificial light
24 votes -
For millennia, Tyrian purple was the most valuable colour on the planet. Then the recipe to make it was lost. By piecing together ancient clues, could one man bring it back?
35 votes -
The US tried permanent daylight saving time in the ’70s. People hated it.
33 votes -
Attosecond lasers explained (2023 Nobel Prize in physics)
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'Noctalgia' is a feature of the modern age for humans, animals suffer from the loss of dark skies too
16 votes -
What color is the sun?
15 votes -
Measuring the amount of lead (Pb) consumed when drinking from lead crystal glassware. Is it safe?
5 votes -
We made an epic fireworks display to explain the science of fireworks
8 votes -
The advent of sunglasses
9 votes -
A new way to think about beauty in art
5 votes -
Residents of Greenland have switched to daylight saving time this weekend for the very last time
11 votes -
You can make handmade holograms just by etching lines into a shiny surface. All you need is a compass with two points (a divider). And to be able to get your head around the mind bending geometry.
10 votes -
Chinese takeout Lo Mein secrets revealed
4 votes -
Chinese takeout fried rice secrets revealed
9 votes -
How ‘The Dress’ sparked a neuroscience breakthrough
8 votes -
Why do we see color?
4 votes -
New type of ultraviolet light makes indoor air as safe as outdoors
5 votes -
Why dark and light is complicated in photographs
5 votes -
Hiding images in plain sight: the physics of magic windows
5 votes -
Researchers levitated a small tray using nothing but light
8 votes -
What color is the sun?
5 votes -
What's the color of an atom?
2 votes -
Lights and shadows
4 votes -
Inside curved spaces
5 votes -
NASA wants the public to help track light pollution from VLEO satellites
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Amateur astronomers have helped discover a new kind of northern lights, known as dunes
5 votes -
SpaceX tests black satellite to reduce ‘megaconstellation’ threat to astronomy
15 votes -
A slower speed of light
8 votes