Beniko’s photos taken in Japanese red-light districts focus on the buildings and rooms usually hidden from view. Read more at ...

After five years of staring unblinking at the sky, the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) has compiled the most detailed map ...

It's late morning and steam is rising from water tanks atop the colourful but opaque-windowed "soapland" sex parlours in a ...

For the first time, scientists have captured the clearest and most detailed image of the cosmic microwave background ...

New insights from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope offer unprecedented images of the universe at 380,000 years old, revealing ...

A project at the University of Adelaide has surveyed the performance of several modalities of low-light scientific camera, ...

The Dong Cai & Tang Hoon Soup was an opaque, light brown broth that had a relatively thick consistency. I had never tried this particular soup before, so I dug in with gusto. For those who need a ...

in an opaque horizontal disk of cold gas and dust that fits within a single pixel. Much farther out, above and below the flattened disk where dust is thinner, the bright light from the stars ...

More stars formed, turning nearly all the opaque, neutral hydrogen atoms into a transparent broth of ionised hydrogen, so that light could travel freely through the expanding cosmos. This was the ...

If the cells allow light through with little scattering, they’ll seem more transparent, while the cells become opaque and more apparent by scattering a lot more light. Scientists learned in 2023 ...

An opaque titanium sheet inserted between the ... back into photons in the crystal on the other side—known as the "light-shining-through-walls" technique. In this proof-of-principle study ...