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Scientists Mimic Fireflies to Make Brighter LEDs
2013-01-08 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Researchers from Belgium, France, and Canada studied internal structure of firefly lanterns and identified unexpected pattern of jagged scales that enhanced the lanterns’ glow. They applied that knowledge to LED design to create an LED overlayer that mimicked the natural structure. This overlayer, which increased LED light extraction by up to 55%, could be tailored to existing diode designs. The work is published in a pair of papers in Optical Society’s open-access journal Optics ...This story is related to the following:Trade Associations
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Scientists Link Global Warming to Englands Rainiest Year on Record
2013-01-07 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EurActiv: Senior climate scientists are linking global warming to the UK Met Office's announcement yesterday (3 January) that 2012 was Englands rainiest year since records began. The weather service's numbers showed that due to slightly more seasonal figures in Wales and Scotland, the UK as a whole experienced its second wettest summer recorded. But four of the UKs Top Five wettest years have now occurred since 2000, a statistic in line with the expectations of climatologists who model the effects of...
Scientists link climate change and gray snapper
2013-01-04 16:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: NOAA scientists continue to develop and improve the approaches used to understand the effect of climate change on marine fisheries along the U.S. east coast. Their latest study projects that one common coastal species found in the southeast U.S., gray snapper, will shift northwards in response to warming coastal waters. In a study published online December 20 in the journal PLOS ONE, researchers from the Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) and the University of North Florida developed projections...
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Scientists urge immediate climate action to limit costs
2013-01-04 12:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Waiting to tackle emissions until 2020 when a global agreement is due to be in place will be far more costly than taking action today, according to new research published this week. Keeping to the internationally agreed target of 2°C of average warming by 2050 will be much more difficult to achieve if action is delayed, risking floods, heatwaves, drought and rising sea level, the report concludes. Keywan Riahi, study co-author and energy program leader at the International Institute for Applied...
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Scientists join forces to bring plant movement to light
2013-01-02 11:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Contact: Richard Hund rhund@botany.org 314-577-9557 American Journal of Botany Insights into how plants move in response to light, water, and gravity from more than 75 scientists in a special issue of the American Journal of Botany Elementary school students often learn that plants grow toward the light. This seems strai…
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