• This was done by analysing the subtle distortions in the ancient light introduced as it passed by the matter.

    BBC: Planck telescope: A map of all the 'stuff' in the cosmos

  • Mr. BOB DYLAN (Singer): (Singing) In the still of the night, in the world's ancient light, where wisdom grows up in strife.

    NPR: Namecheck: Did Timrod Influence Dylan?

  • Everything from the ancient brass light switches and the copper bathtubs to the 12-foot alligator floor piece was hoarded by the peripatetic Mr. Yeh.

    FORBES: Lifestyle Feature

  • The findings help explain how pygmy whales evolved and may also help shed light on how these ancient "lost" whales lived.

    MSN: Found: Whale thought extinct for 2 million years

  • In Merida, Mayan priest Valerio Canche conducts an ancient ritual to honor the dead in light of the upcoming end of the 13th baktun.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • My angry guide disappeared into an unlit room, banged around for a minute, and suddenly switched on an ancient Soviet movie projector, using the light to illuminate the projection booth of what had been Vale's only movie theater.

    NPR: Adventures Along the Caspian Pipeline

  • For example, iron-gall ink, commonly used on ancient documents, is transparent to infra-red light and most visible in the ultraviolet region of the spectrum.

    ECONOMIST: Monitor

  • These lightshows of dying stars have been seen since ancient times, but modern astronomers use details of their light to probe the Universe's secrets.

    BBC: Supernova 'Mingus' could shed light on dark energy

  • Even at their most opaque, the animated puppet films of the Brothers Quay (Philadelphia-born identical twins who now live in London) are eerily moving, like ancient volumes brought from the obscurity of a Borgesian library into the light.

    NEWYORKER: Tales of the Brothers Quay

  • The student prize went to Swansea Metropolitan architectural glass MA student Rhian Haf of Gwythevin, Abergele, for her glass sculpture Glass, Light and Space - a group of glass houses cast using an ancient lost wax technique.

    BBC: fleece painting

  • One moment, the ethereal white or green curtains of light with a streak of violet take on forms that evoke the ancient mythology of the north - a palace of lights, a Sami fire in the wilderness, the prow of a Viking ship.

    BBC: The perfect trip: Norway

  • Painter after painter capitulates to the allure of warm ochre-painted walls and ancient brick, umbrella pines and bare hills, revealed by low, diffused, golden light.

    WSJ: Appealing to Modern Eyes | The Path of Nature | Metropolitan Museum of Art | By Karen Wilkin

  • She still treasures the moment when a piece of the past, an object of people's daily lives in ancient Athens, or a marker mentioned in an ancient text, is revealed and she's able to bring it back into the light.

    BBC: Working Lives Athens

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