The first images from space of the distribution of light sources on the planet's surface were published in 1989.

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This sampling helped to work out the distribution and mix of light wavelengths and their relative intensities found in a scene, said Mr Hunt.

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Individuals who purchase the LuminAID light will be helping the distribution of the product around the world.

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Tony Tyson and David Wittman, who work at Lucent Technologies' Bell Laboratories, in New Jersey, and their collaborators have proposed building a telescope that estimates the distribution of mass in the past by analysing these deflected light-waves, a technique known as three-dimensional mass tomography.

ECONOMIST: Cosmology

Yet Mr Kay sheds no light on whether more competition should be encouraged in the distribution of health care, say, or water supplies, or whether raising or lowering taxes improves economic growth.

ECONOMIST: Capitalism's success

Quantum key distribution does this by encoding the information in the polarisation states of individual photons, the particles of light, which are sent from Alice to Bob over an optical fibre.

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Light manufacturing of clothing, jewellery and toys import and distribution, entertainment with its myriad supporting trades, and electronic technology have all contributed to a revival in the fortune of Los Angeles that belies the gloom of the early 1990s.

ECONOMIST: Los Angeles

Until last summer, advertising any alcohol other than light beer was strictly prohibited in Utah, one of 18 states that control the distribution and price of liquor.

ECONOMIST: Religion and advertising