Why rich people don’t cover their windows – An unexpected status symbol has become a fixture of high-end homes
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Police in Norway say four people were injured when a tram jumped the rails and crashed into an electronic device store in central Oslo
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Goodbye, floppies - San Francisco pays Hitachi $212 million to remove 5.25-inch disks from its light rail service
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Mass transit on orbital boulevards
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Why is the speed of light so fast?
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The rapidly growing tram system of Helsinki – taking a look at the network's history, lines, technical details, tram fleet, ridership, and the future
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The 2024 European Tram Driver Championships
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Black holes can’t be created by light
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Helsinki's incredibly well executed Jokeri light rail project – finished way ahead of schedule and costs lower than initially budgeted
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I made the world's blackest flipbook
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Why every city wants a Wrigley Field
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Safer Sunscreen: Stanford researchers explore novel approach to sustainable sun protection
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Does light itself truly have an infinite lifetime?
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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
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Why flying insects gather at artificial light
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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?
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The US tried permanent daylight saving time in the ’70s. People hated it.
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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
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What color is the sun?
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Measuring the amount of lead (Pb) consumed when drinking from lead crystal glassware. Is it safe?
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We made an epic fireworks display to explain the science of fireworks
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The advent of sunglasses
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A new way to think about beauty in art
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Residents of Greenland have switched to daylight saving time this weekend for the very last time
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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.
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Chinese takeout Lo Mein secrets revealed
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Chinese takeout fried rice secrets revealed
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How ‘The Dress’ sparked a neuroscience breakthrough
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Why do we see color?
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New type of ultraviolet light makes indoor air as safe as outdoors
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US Senate approves bill to make daylight saving time permanent
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Why dark and light is complicated in photographs
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Hiding images in plain sight: the physics of magic windows
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Researchers levitated a small tray using nothing but light
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What color is the sun?
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What's the color of an atom?
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Lights and shadows
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Inside curved spaces
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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
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SpaceX tests black satellite to reduce ‘megaconstellation’ threat to astronomy
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A slower speed of light
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How Flagstaff, Arizona, switched to LEDs without giving astronomers a headache
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93% of British Columbians want to scrap changing clocks for daylight time, survey says
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LumiThera raises cash for medical device that uses light to fight vision loss
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Why astronomers are worried that SpaceX’s satellite network will pollute the night sky
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The sky is blue. Why isn't everything blue?
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Spain’s struggle with light pollution
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