It’s called “local adaptive spatiotemporal smoothing,” and birds moths do it, bees do it, even educated fleas dung beetles do ... full-color night vision in your car. It involves a three ...

Warrant began studying dung beetles in 1985 as a PhD student at ... brightness and shadow than is possible with conventional night-vision technology. There are already plenty of ways to improve ...

Like humans throughout history, it turns out that dung beetles are ... can also confuse the beetles. The extra, mostly unpolarized light swamps the beetles’ vision, making it more difficult ...

The dung beetle is the first known species to use the Milky Way at night to navigate ... and his team of Ph.D. students have used computer vision to demonstrate that the large stripe of light ...

The dung beetle’s galactic guidance ... they developed a computer vision system capable of reliably measuring the Milky Way’s orientation. For real night sky images, the system achieved ...

with a dung beetle.Credit...Chris Collingridge Supported by By Joshua Sokol One moonless night a little more than a decade ago, Marie Dacke and Eric Warrant, animal vision experts from Lund ...

By Christie Taylor A dung beetle is a deceptively humble creature ... And for at least one nocturnal species, the vital clue on a moonless night seems to be our own Milky Way.

The dung beetle is the first known species to use the Milky Way at night to navigate ... and his team of PhD students have used computer vision to demonstrate that the large stripe of light ...

Animals renowned for their outstanding night vision include owls, cats, tarsiers (a tiny primate in Southeast Asia) — and even the dung beetle. But humans? Not so much. Over time, many people ...

Creating a census of the dung beetles of Massachusetts could help inform how to make sure dung beetles keep doing their important work in forests and farming fields. Now to a search for dung ...

The study has contributed to the scientific understanding of dung beetles, which are already known to use visible portions of the Milky Way to navigate at night and dance around balls of dung to ...