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Scientists say they’ve invented a piece of technology that will let us peer through an animal’s eyes better than ever before. The tech uses a combination of novel hardware and software to produce images and videos that accurately represent the colors seen by animals, such as bees and birds. In new research this week, the team found that its innovation nearly matches the accuracy of conventional, yet more limiting, methods used to capture an animal’s color vision. Alex Winter on His Character in Destroy All Neighbors…

Digital Trends “That’s just too dim.” It’s the same feedback I always get when reviewing OLED gaming monitors, which have made waves throughout this year. The criticism puts a damper on the otherwise jaw-dropping color and perfect contrast. The brightness measurements certainly seem to affirm that suspicion, showing they sometimes provide more than half as much brightness of a traditional LCD display. But are they really too dim? To better understand how OLED differs, I talked with Jacky Qiu, vice president and…

A team of researchers designed a two-dimensional photonic time crystal that they say could have applications in technologies like transmitters and lasers.What Is Carbon Capture? With Gizmodo’s Molly Taft | TechmodoDespite their name, photonic time crystals have little in common with time crystals, a phase of matter first proposed in 2012 and observed several years later. The fundamental commonality is that both crystals have structural patterns over time, but time crystals are quantum materials—the atoms are suspended in…

The Apple Watch Series 8 was a bit of a boring release for Apple’s wearable, as it wasn’t a huge upgrade over the Apple Watch Series 7; Apple seemed to spend more energy focusing on the Apple Watch Ultra instead. The only real upgrades for the Series 8 were the newer-generation S8 chip and a new body temperature sensor, though the use cases for that are pretty limited. But if you didn’t have a Series 7, then the Apple Watch Series 8 was still a great upgrade for those coming from older models. We’re still a few…

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare on January 9, 2023.Image: NASA/SDOEarth’s host star can be quite temperamental, compelling astronomers to launch satellites and probes on missions to keep a close watch of the Sun’s massive flares. But instruments pointed towards the Sun have a tendency to acquire cloudy vision as the result of a mysterious layer that’s puzzled scientists for years.Instruments on board NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which has been observing the Sun since…

Image: Shutterstock (Shutterstock)A new study this week suggests that long-term exposure to blue light may not be so harmless, at least for fruit flies. Researchers found that chronic blue light exposure prematurely aged the flies and damaged their brains, likely due to certain metabolic changes. But it’s not known whether blue light could cause similar harm in humans, and the exposure people get from phone screens and indoor lighting isn’t likely to be worse than the blue light naturally present in sunshine.02:5710…

On July 12, NASA released the Webb telescope’s first images. Now, the space agency has translated the data from those images into sounds, allowing us to hear the cosmic wonders the telescope saw.Webb images in the near-infrared and mid-infrared, which encompass wavelengths human eyes are not capable of seeing. The telescope’s images are themselves translated from raw data into light we can see, a process detailed here. The sonified images go a step further, by taking those infrared wavelengths and mapping them to pitches…

Michael Toth removes a Greek document from the beamline at Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource.The typed word dominates our lives today, but it’s still a relatively fresh invention in the timelineof humanity—and despite how drastically printing altered our societies, there’s still a lot we don’t know about its early history. Recently, a team of scientists put some of the earliest known printed documents through a high-powered X-ray examination at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California, to better…

Our sun, which has…