A set of breakthroughs from scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is ...

Light is everywhere, and it's made of photons,tiny particles that move at the speed of light through space, traveling vast ...

The new monarch is the light-emitting diode, or LED, and it’s poised to have an enduring reign. Over the past decade, scientists, engineers, designers, and policymakers groomed the LED to rule ...

America’s ban on incandescent light bulbs, 16 years in the making, is finally a reality. ... New technology, including LED lights, provides a much more energy-efficient manner to light your home.

The closest object to us is the Moon.Its average distance is about 240,000 miles, so light from the Moon takes (240,000 miles divided by 186.000) 1 and 1/3 seconds to get from the Moon to Earth.

Blue light has shorter wavelengths and higher energy than other colors. Some research shows a link between eye damage and short-wave blue light with wavelengths between 415 and 455 nanometers.

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Rising OPEC+ supplies and new streams of oil coming online globally are increasing options for European and Asian refiners and weighing on export demand for light sweet U.S. crude, contributing to ...

Blue light sits in the light spectrum between ultraviolet, high-energy light, and other types of visible light that aren’t blue light and emit lower energy such as green, orange, and red light. About ...

Generally, a 100-watt-equivalent LED light bulb is between 10 and 15 watts. 60-watt-equivalent LED bulbs are between 8 and 10 watts, and 40-watt-equivalent bulbs are around 6 to 8 watts.

Two independent research groups now report for the first time that visible light can break apart PFAS into benign by-products (Nature 2024, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08179-1 and 10.1038/s41586-024 ...