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This real-world study shows that recent and habitual light exposure are linked to lower subjective sleepiness and faster ...

Ocean Optics reports on how spectroscopy revolutionizes research by utilizing light to analyze materials, improving accuracy ...

Among the more puzzling cosmic phenomena discovered over the past few decades are brief and very bright flashes of blue and ...

Using an optoelectronic transistor as the tetrachromatic sensor, the system can simultaneously process spectral, spatial, and ...

I crunched the data on over a million shots of faces across 3,655 movies to see whether modern lighting is getting flatter.

Researchers at the University of Geneva, together with colleagues in Switzerland, France, the United States and Israel, ...

Scientists found a way to let people perceive an intense blue-green hue unlike anything they had seen before – and the ...

Geomagnetic storms brought the northern lights to much of the U.S. this week, painting the sky in vibrant hues of green and pink. "Well, we had activity tonight — a lot of geomagnetic storm activity," ...

During the workday, you know how common it is to lose track of time. One minute, you’re starting your day by brewing a cup of coffee and checking emails, then seemingly in the blink of an eye, it’s ...

Abstract: The increasing dependence on light-emitting diode (LED)-based lighting is raising the interest in using visible light communication (VLC) to provide wireless coverage in outdoor scenarios, ...