In "China Is Bright Spot in Dark Report on the World's Diminishing Forests" (Nov. 15), China is credited with a huge turnaround in its deforestation trends.
According to a study in the journal Animal Cognition, "the dogs were four times as likely to steal the food — and steal it more quickly — when the room was dark," National Geographic reported.
While the Ursids may be visible Friday night through early next week, viewers will have the best chance of seeing the meteor shower after the moon sets in the early morning on Dec. 22, when the sky is still dark, EarthSky reported.
A linear regression analyses of the day-time olfaction gene expression with the early dark phase reported here, resulted in R values of 0.74-0.78 for the three olfaction gene families in An. gambiae, and 0.76-0.91 in An. quadriannulatus.
A new study in Computers in Human Behavior looked at data on Tinder users, and found something a bit darker: They reported that a portion of Tinder users were in committed relationships while they were using the app.
Mr. Conable recalled the day after the attack, when Channel 2, the only station he was receiving, went dark after reporting a bomb scare at the Empire State Building.
A report from the AP lays out the details, but the information will come as no surprise to anyone who has tried to fully expunge their location data, or who read the "dark patterns" report from June.
Kunkel et al. [31] and Sweere et al. [32] measured the light-independent reversion of A. thaliana phyB Pfr to Pr (so-called dark reversion) and reported a relatively rapid initial dark reversion within the first 20 minutes of darkness in yeast cells.
The darkest report yet on the impacts of climate change, points to a future stalked by floods, drought, conflict and economic damage if carbon emissions go untamed.
The film "looks like the movie to beat right now" as the critics' awards "landscape is dominated by Kathryn Bigelow's 'Zero Dark Thirty,'" reported the Washington Post's Jen Chaney.
Astronomers mapped dark matter and reported the brightest supernova, the most massive star, and the most Earth-like extrasolar planet.
