Can exposure to the sun or other specific types of light help those dealing with chronic psoriasis? We took a look at the science behind phototherapy, also known as light therapy, to see how the ...

A new study published in the journal Neurobiology of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms provides evidence that exposure to blue ...

Photons, for centuries both a puzzle and a tool, continue to help scientists illuminate nature at the smallest and largest ...

Scientists from Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the California Institute of Technology have demonstrated that light can behave in a way previously observed only in ...

ALBERT EINSTEIN won the 1921 Nobel prize for physics in 1922. The temporal anomaly embodied in that sentence was not, alas, one of the counterintuitive consequences of his theories of relativity, ...

Today, proteins that can be controlled with light are a widely used tool in research to specifically switch certain functions on and off in living organisms. Channelrhodopsins are often used for the ...

This nifty infographic from B&H caught our eye recently. It's a quick primer on photography lighting. We placed the light source in exactly the same spot for each photo. As we changed the lighting ...

Maybe it’s the COVID-19-inspired houseplant boom or something in the water, but over the last few months, I’ve had an explosion in questions about houseplants and house windows. The basic questions ...

UPTON, NY--Scientists at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN)--a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory--have used an optoelectronic ...