When sunlight hits clouds or other atmospheric particles, it scatters and becomes diffuse light. Unlike direct sunlight, diffuse light can reach deeper into shaded plant canopies, where plants have ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...