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Cool Jobs: The science of secrets

By Susan Gaidos / October 31, 2012

Chick-a-dee-dee-dee. The chickadee gets its name from its distinctive call. The greater the danger, the more “dees” a chickadee adds to the call’s end. Credit: Christopher N. Templeton

Researchers harness science to encode — and decode — hidden messages

Posted in STEM Careers, Technology & Engineering | Tagged acoustics, Adaptation, Aequorea Victoria, agar, animal behavior, Antibiotics, bacteria, bird of prey, bird song, birdsong, chickadee, Chris Templeton, codes, colors, cool jobs, crime, criminal, cryptography, David Walt, decode, decryption, detective, digital, electronics, encryption, FBI, feature, Federal Bureau of Investigation, fluorescence, fluorescent protein, forensic, global positioning system, GPS, Heather Mahalik, investigator, invisible ink, jellyfish, key, merlin, microbiology, patterns, predator, pygmy owl, raptor, sonogram, topstories, Tufts University, University of Montana, University of St. Andrews, warning calls

Fish eyes go green

By Stephen Ornes / January 25, 2012

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Scientists find a surprise in the lens of a fish that lives in the dark

Posted in Animals | Tagged absorption, color, feature, fluorescence, Lenses, lenses/mirrors/filters, light, physics, reflection

Galaxies on the go

By Susan Gaidos / November 4, 2008

Millions of stars are mysteriously racing toward one point in the sky

Posted in Space | Tagged absorption, color, Doppler, fluorescence, frequency shift, Lenses, light, physics, radiation, reflection, waves/radiation