Indoor life is comfortable for pet birds, but it comes with one big downside: most homes don’t provide the kind of light ...

Ultraviolet has very short and energetic wavelengths that are shorter than violet on the visible spectrum. But can people see UV? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Key Takeaways UV lamps require longer curing times and frequent bulb changes. In comparison, LED lamps are faster-curing and ...

Jing Zhang, a faculty member at Rochester Institute of Technology, received a prestigious CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for work to develop new, highly efficient ultraviolet light ...

The Spectrum UV from ASP Inc. is a unique, multi beam-color tactical flashlight. In addition to its primary white light, it offers red, blue and UV beams, as well as a low level and strobe, for a ...

A bus being treated with ultraviolet light in Shanghai, China. Although types of UV light are already in use to decontaminate vehicles and indoor spaces, the wavelengths used are dangerous to people.

We are faced with a global epidemic of myopia (short-sightedness) because we are deprived of deep violet light (360-400 nm). Myopia is projected to rise from 23 to 50 percent of the world’s population ...

As Christmas nears, so too do fun memes with purported wintery arctic facts. One popular addition to this genre is the claim that reindeer are the only mammals capable of seeing ultraviolet (UV) light ...