Researchers have developed a new way to predict how crop leaves scatter light, achieving accuracy scores as high as 0.99 in tests from China. A Chinese crop science team used the framework to improve ...

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Below average temperatures remain in place for a few more days. It will be a mostly quiet weather pattern outside of the one light snow chance later tonight into early Sunday. Temperatures will get a ...

Spectrum Slit a light sculpture visualizes RF activity with an SDR receiver and sixty?four filament LEDs, helping you see ...

For flowering plants, reproduction is a question of the birds and the bees. Attracting the right pollinator can be a matter ...

A small system will give us a taste of wet and mild weather today. Even after today, we’ll watch that pattern ramp up a little more before we head into the weekend. A low pressure center moving to our ...

In the past decade, CR testing trends show that cordless leaf blowers have evolved from a niche product for light leaf cleanup to a viable alternative to heavy-duty gas-powered blowers. “Cordless leaf ...

Spatial control of the phase and amplitude of a laser beam is useful for applications ranging from imaging and holography to interferometry and optical tweezers, reports Neil Savage. Digital spatial ...

[Brainiac75] is a fan of fiber optic lamps, except for one thing—they’re often remarkably dim. Thus, they set out to hack the technology to deliver terrifying amounts of light while still retaining ...