Most contemporary portable electronics, including laptops, smartphones and smart watches, are powered by batteries that need ...

Light supplies the energy plants need to build up biomass. A research team is researching how plants adapt their photosynthesis to changing light. They describe a key molecular mechanism that ...

Solar cells and photocatalysts can be surprisingly inefficient. Despite light consisting of many wavelengths, the range that even highly efficient devices use is limited. Other wavelengths, especially ...

Light to fuel: clean hydrogen production. Improved understanding of the light-driven production of hydrogen holds the promise not just to make the reaction more efficient in producing a fuel, but also ...

Researchers at Kyushu University and partner institutions have created a solid material that converts ordinary visible ...

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Scientists studying particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)—a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facility for nuclear physics research at DOE's Brookhaven ...

The Light + Energy Lab is a space designed for light manipulation to simulate sunlight effects on architectural models. This can be done using our two primary tools – the Diffuse Sky Simulator and the ...

Lighting efficiency standards continue to rise, but the Trump administration is trying to limit their scope. Here's everything you need to know. Originally hailing from Troy, Ohio, Ry Crist is a ...