Bathrooms with no windows have a tendency to make you feel boxed in. While there's no beaming natural sunlight into the small ...

As fast as modern electronics have become, they could be much faster if their operations were based on light, rather than ...

Researchers traced long, bright radio pulses, combined with X-rays, to an intriguing cosmic object 15,000 light-years from ...

Researchers have developed experimental contact lenses that use nanoparticles to convert the invisible wavelengths of ...

Solar energy has long been a go-to solution for sustainability, but traditional panels have their limitations. They’re big, ...

But when scientists peer very far back, they find conundrums. JWST observations of the distant past are at odds with ...

On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital ...

thanks to a cluster of 20 extra-bright LEDs, housed in a transparent, domed enclosure; the LEDs are visible from the side as well as the rear. An attention-grabbing light with a fun flash pattern ...

Bright light therapy, a standard treatment for seasonal depression, may also help people who experience depression year-round, a study shows. Researchers found that patients with non-seasonal ...

Bright light therapy, which is sometimes used to treat seasonal affective disorders, also works for people with other types of depression, a new analysis has found. An estimated 40 per cent of ...

After 15 years of studying transparent sea creatures, he admits scientists still do not know exactly how certain animals allow light to travel through them. But he does know what ruins transparency: ...

“Optical equipment, like the microscope, is not directly used to study live humans or animals because light can’t go through living tissue," Ou said. "But now that we can make tissue ...