LED Lights: Downsides & Safety Precautions To Consider Before Installing

LED lights are everywhere, and you might be considering adding more of them to your home. Just how serious are the risks to ...

This engineer literally lit up the world — and now wants to power it

Shuji Nakamura already transformed the world once. His invention of blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) changed everything ...
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LED blue light risk: The health warning lighting brands don't have to share

When you flip a switch or power up your smartphone, the last thing on your mind is whether that light could be messing with your body's internal systems. Yet here's something lighting manufacturers ...
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Blue lights and textbook chemistry could help create complex drugs in fewer steps

In drug discovery, building complex molecules quickly is the name of the game. Chemists want molecules with increasingly three-dimensional atomic structures because they may be more potent and ...
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Simple resin coating extends blue quantum-dot LED lifetimes 5,000-fold

A simple resin coating dramatically extends the lifetime of blue quantum-dot LEDs, addressing a key barrier to brighter, more ...
Physics World

LED streetlights are increasing blue-light pollution in Europe

Light pollution blues: photographs of London taken on board the ISS in 2012 (left) and 2020 (right). The images show the whitening and brightening of the city. (Courtesy: A Sánchez de Miguel et ...