UV LED nail lamps are very trendy right now, allowing people to quickly wrap up their manicures at the salon or in the ...

Grades 9-12 Learn about the cause of sunburns, in this video from NOVA’s Gross Science series. Sunlight is made up of many types of radiation: infrared, visible, and ultraviolet (UV). UV radiation can ...

Summer vacation is a time for fun and play, but can also be a time for learning. Parents have the added benefit of teaching ...

Scientists discover cold-loving proteins called cryorhodopsins that could help control brain cells with light.

In the frozen reaches of the planet—glaciers, mountaintops, and icy groundwater—scientists have uncovered strange ...

In the early 1990s, eight people tried to survive in a hermetically sealed glass structure filled with miniature forests, ...

Imagine the magnificent glaciers of Greenland, the eternal snow of the Tibetan high mountains, and the permanently ice-cold ...

Diao presented her first solo exhibition, Time Through Stitches, at the Dream &Dream Art Center in Shanghai. It's a ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have developed a unique luminescent probe that uses terbium, a rare earth metal, to sense the presence of an enzyme called β-glucuronidase, which ...

In the video itself, the author simply shines an ultraviolet flashlight on a seemingly ordinary packet of "Classic" Brest-Litovsk oil. In the darkness the package is transformed: diagonal rows of ...

Was the UV light that had induced it also somehow suppressing the mouse’s natural immune response? In a series of experiments, Kripke determined that UV radiation was indeed a double whammy.

In comparison, UV light of 365 nm only generated a small amount of •OH. By combining EPR spectroscopy with DFT calculations, the researchers clarified the different activation mechanisms under ...