Terahertz spectroscopy, the imaging technology used in airport body scanners, has uncovered a hidden, ancient fresco underneath a wall painting at the Louvre.
It may sound like an impossible dream, but two designers in London have built functioning prototypes of GravityLight, a cheap way for people in developing countries t0 light homes, recharge batteries, or power a radio.
Lumenpulse, a developer of commercial-grade light sources that use light-emitting diodes (LEDs), announced today it has raised $16 million in its first round of funding.
The company manufactures more than a dozen kinds of LED lights, some of which can …
The U.S. Department of Energy announced today that multinational electronics company Philips has snagged $10 million in the L Prize for developing an energy-efficient light bulb powered by light emitting diodes (LEDs).
The LED bulb can generate around 900 lumens …
Cree unveiled a new light-emitting diode (LED) light bulb that boasts the same output as a 75-watt incandescent bulb while consuming about one tenth of the electricity.
The bulb produces 152 lumens — a measure of the visible light emitted …
