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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The IKEA SMÅSNÖRE is a flexible silicone rod with an embedded LED strip, attached at each end to a base. It’s eye-catching enough, and it has the useful property of providing a diffuse light from ...

For most of human history, the only light we could generate came from flames. That meant there was a clear distinction between what could be done during the day and at night. Since the onset of ...

Satellite One, 2021. Venice Beach, Los Angeles / USA. Image © Chromasonic Turrell's minimalism extends to the elimination of tangible objects in his creations, as he ...