The study marks a significant advancement in the field of living light-emitting devices, introducing a new approach to sustainable and recyclable lighting. By using bacteria to generate the ...

Nikola Tesla - Improved Lighting. Early Lighting. The various inventors of early electric lights knew essentially of two ways to produce illumination: by running currents through wires or fibers ...

A team of researchers has turned ordinary yeast into tiny, glowing drug factories, creating and testing billions of ...

When you think of solar panels, you usually picture giant cells mounted to face the sun. But what if "solar" cells could be ...

Many fluorescent lights use blue-green light, and people closely link this to photophobia. Bright lights can bounce off other surfaces, causing glare, and making it difficult for the person to see.

A device that can convert a smartphone or tablet into a fluorescence microscope for less than US $50 is presented in a proof-of-principle study in Scientific Reports. The authors suggest that the ...

Green groups warned Tuesday that broken used-up fluorescent lamps pose danger to public health due to mercury vapor that may cause life-threatening chemical pneumonitis and respiratory failure ...