July is UV awareness month, a time to remind ourselves of the powerful impact the sun’s ultraviolet rays can have on our ...

Ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) spectroscopy is a widely used technique in many areas of science ranging from bacterial culturing, drug identification and nucleic acid purity checks and quantitation, to ...

UV-Vis spectroscopy, short for ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy, is an analytical technique that measures the absorption or reflectance of light by a sample in the ultraviolet (UV) and visible (Vis) ...

Keep in mind, however, that the American Academy of Dermatologists Association and the American Cancer Society recommend wearing a broad-spectrum sunscreen ... In fact, up to 90% of visible skin ...

The UV Index provides a measure of the sun's ultraviolet radiation, a short wavelength of light invisible to humans, that can ...

Birds are incredible evolutionary creatures, as birders tend to know. They can see in the ultraviolet spectrum, which really ...

Team led by Professor Junsuk Rho creates metasurface polarizer that generates and detects vortex beams across both ultraviolet and visible light, expanding possibilities for optical technologies.

Your blood is also red because of a mixture of iron and oxygen in a molecule called hemoglobin. So in a way, the ancient connection between the planet Mars and blood wasn’t completely wrong. Rust, ...

The current sunscreens offered in the U.S., Schlesinger explained, do not protect all the way to the end of the UV spectrum, including visible light, with the exception of tinted sunscreens.

Not so long ago, people like my Aunt Muriel thought of sunburn as a necessary evil on the way to a “good base tan.” She used ...

Ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) spectroscopy is a widely used technique in many areas of science ranging from bacterial culturing, drug identification and nucleic acid purity checks and quantitation, to ...