If you're not a morning person, a wake-up light or sunrise alarm clock can be a game-changer. Sunlight is key to getting your day off to a great start, improving alertness during the day as well ...

She is also a Certified Stress Management Coach. Do blue light glasses actually work? Though they claim to reduce eyestrain and headaches and help you sleep better, no robust research confirms ...

The nonlinearity of the metasurface is essential in this transformation of light. A linear metasurface would filter the incoming light and allow only the specific polarization of the light to pass ...

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There’s no better example of having a case of Mondays than the day after the Super Bowl. Coors Light announced Wednesday that it’s temporarily changing its name to “Mondays Light” in an ...

But we’ll give you the short version here. Light travels about a foot in a nanosecond. What have you got that measures signals on a nanosecond scale pretty reliably? Of course, it’s your ...

Photo: Rikard Osterlund For 12 evenings across January and February, 11 temporary light artworks and sculptures are dotted among the skyscrapers of east London for Canary Wharf Winter Lights.

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The screens we use every day – from smartphones to televisions – work by either filtering white light or creating their own illumination. These approaches have served well but ...

If you've been outside shortly after sunset this month, it's likely that you've noticed one, and possibly two, bright points of light in the sky. Are they UFOs? The North Star or the Dog Star?

Not only do they spit out test and measurement tools at an impressive pace, but they also try to innovate in the looks department. The first Fnirsi tool that landed on my desk in 2025 is the LCR-P1 ...

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