Artificial light lures migrating birds into cities, where they face a gauntlet of threats
Migrating birds need stopover locations en route where they can rest and feed. A new study shows that artificial light draws them away from sites they would normally use and into risky zones.
Kyle Horton, Assistant Professor of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University •
conversation
Dec. 14, 2023 • ~7 min
Dec. 14, 2023 • ~7 min
SAD lamps: do they work? Experts explain how they help the winter blues
SAD is a debilitating condition affecting many people, but there is light at the end of the tunnel.
Claire Hutchinson, Professor of Experimental Psychology, University of the West of Scotland
• conversation
Nov. 21, 2023 • ~6 min
Nov. 21, 2023 • ~6 min
Is time travel even possible? An astrophysicist explains the science behind the science fiction
Scientists are trying to figure out if time travel is even theoretically possible. If it is, it looks like it would take a whole lot more knowledge and resources than humans have now to do it.
Adi Foord, Assistant Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County •
conversation
Nov. 13, 2023 • ~7 min
Nov. 13, 2023 • ~7 min
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