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Call it the fifth generation of light—the availability of electric lights that promote health and well-being by automatically mimicking the natural cycle of light. They switch between blue-rich ...
When you flip a switch or power up your smartphone, the last thing on your mind is whether that light could be messing with ...
Do LED lights cause cancer? Can they really reduce crime? One kid is so concerned about LED streetlights that he called Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Chicago sixth-grader JJ Nnawuchi loves looking at the stars, ...
A Rutgers-led team of scientists has developed an eco-friendly, very stable, ultra-bright material and used it to generate deep-blue light (emission at ~450 nm) in a light-emitting diode (LED), an ...
Light pollution blues: photographs of London taken on board the ISS in 2012 (left) and 2020 (right). The images show the whitening and brightening of the city. (Courtesy: A Sánchez de Miguel et ...
Deep blue: Scientists have developed hybrid copper iodide crystals that emit deep-blue light. (Courtesy: Kun Zhu/Jing Li Lab/Rutgers University) A team led by researchers at Rutgers University in the ...