2016 Ig Nobel prize winner György Kriska and his colleagues are researching polarisation: a special property of the light, which is invisible to the human eye, but visible to various insects.
This is a superpower which can be used, for example, to recognize a stream when searching for water. The special visual information has helped aquatic insects to survive for millions of years, but humans have begun to transform the physical environment, so that the animals are receiving more and more false and often deadly signals.
Light reflections from artificial surfaces, such as solar panels, asphalt roads, windows, dark cars, basically all shiny and dark objects, represent an ecological trap for billions of aquatic insects every day. Thus, the polarized world is slowly becoming a weapon of mass destruction all over the world.
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