LED light savings backfire spectacularly as light pollution increases dramatically
Instead of consuming less, we're consuming more.
Tag: light
Designer Oscar Lhermitte brings the moon to your fingertips
You can't get any more lunar than this without leaving the planet.
Scientists just turned light-based information into readable soundwaves
It's like storing lightning in thunder.
What exactly is a photon? Definition, properties, facts
Let's shine some light on the matter.
Computer chip can mimic human neurons using only beams of light
Just MIT doing a bit of light thinking.
New, cheap artificial photosynthesis scrubs the air and produces fuel
Currently only works with blue light, but they're working on fixing that.
Dutch researchers demonstrate 42.8 gbps connection using Li-Fi. It’s 100 times faster than the best Wi-Fi
It uses infrared light instead of radio waves to transfer data.
Light-bending material could bridge quantum and classical physics
We're closer than ever to a Theory of Everything.
Scientists discover new ‘Frankenstein’ form of light, with important consequences for quantum computing
An intriguing electron-light interaction was discovered by scientists.
New silicon chip technology amplifies light using sound waves
A whole new world of signal processing may be just around the corner.
How to slow down light until it stops
In vacuum, light always travels at a constant speed of 299,792,458 metres per second. Nothing can travel faster than this ...
‘Cool’ light improves learning and academic performance. ‘Yellow light’ better for relaxing
A new research investigated various light intensity scenarios and reported their findings. For optimal learning performance, "cool" light is better ...
Mantis shrimps teach humans how to make a new type of optical material
Mantis shrimp are probably best known for the dazzling colors that adorn their shells. The second thing they're best known ...
Who says incandescent bulbs have to waste energy: MIT design is more efficient than LEDs
Though incandescent light bulbs have been used to light homes for more than a hundreds years, and still do so ...
What makes things coloured – the physics behind it
Have you ever wondered where do colours come from?
Scientists develop the blackest material ever
Just in time for Halloween, scientists have developed the blackest material - a material so dark that it absorbs almost ...
Something is blocking light from a distant star, and one of the possibilities is an alien structure
It's likely not aliens, but it could be - and it's really, really strange.
Looking at the universe naked – an Ontological Awakening
It was Stephen Hawking who said: We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a ...
The world’s first image of light as both a particle and a wave
We see light every day, and yet, we don't truly understand it; it's either a particle or a wave, or ...