A multiple-exposure photograph of insects circling a light at night. Samuel Fabian, CC BY-ND It’s an observation as old as humans gathering around campfires: Light at night can draw an erratically ...

At night in the Costa Rican cloud forest, a small team of international scientists switched on a light and waited. Soon, insects big and small descended out of the darkness. Moths with spots like ...

It’s an observation as old as humans gathering around campfires: Light at night can draw an erratically circling crowd of insects. In art, music, and literature, this spectacle is an enduring metaphor ...

With the world on the brink of an "insect apocalypse," scientists have revealed yet another way we may be wreaking havoc on our six-legged friends: light pollution. Two new studies underline the ...

Switching off the street lights does not just help save money and energy. Findings of a new research showed this could also boost pollination at night. In the research published in the journal ...

Standing in a tropical forest at night, you might hear what sounds like a small bird calling from high in the canopy. Listen ...

Light pollution disrupts circadian rhythms and ecosystems worldwide – but for plants, dependent on light for photosynthesis, its effects could be profound. Now scientists writing in Frontiers in Plant ...

Not long ago, one could gaze at the night sky and see the Milky Way. Light pollution, or artificial light at night, now significantly impedes our view of the Milky Way; air pollution contributes, too.

The effect of reflected light was strongly dependent on whether it came from below or above the insect. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-44785-3 It's an observation as old ...