Diffuse optical spectroscopy and imaging have emerged as versatile techniques for investigating the optical properties of complex media, particularly in biomedical, environmental and agricultural ...

Scientists are tapping into photographs taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to reliably measure the amount of light pollution worldwide. This study not only includes the ...

Artificial night-time light confuses a colour-changing coastal woodlouse, new research shows. The sea slater is an inch-long woodlouse that lives around the high-tide line and is common in the UK and ...

A newly released image shows a colorful haze glowing above the Paranal Observatory in the Chilean Atacama Desert at sunset. The European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) stands ...

A research team at Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI) in South Korea is tackling the use of solar PV in non-ideal conditions with a new tool to optimize for urban and indoor PV diffuse ...

To the eye the zodiacal light looks like an enormous, wedge-shaped pillar of diffuse light slanting upward from the eastern horizon and extending halfway up the sky. The faint "finger" of the zodiacal ...

" SKYSURF: Constraints on Zodiacal Light and Extragalactic Background Light through Panchromatic HST All-sky Surface-brightness Measurements: II. First Limits on Diffuse Light at 1.25, 1.4, and 1.6 μm ...