Since 1513 when Juan Ponce de León sailed south along the coast of Florida on a route that would become the most important shipping lane in the New World, mariners have had to navigate a treacherous ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Compared to the conventional inefficient incandescent and fluorescent lighting technologies, LED light bulbs can, in principle, operate at an efficiency level of 100%. The current ...

DETROIT (WWJ) -- Detroit Metropolitan Airport (DTW) announced this week that it will replace all 6,050 lighting fixtures in both of its parking structures and increase the number of fixtures by 19 ...

Electricity is best known for operating modern-day devices, but the fundamental process, which is the movement of electrons, is also one of the requirements of life. Now, a new study demonstrates that ...

White light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are currently a source of great research and commercial interest in view of the revolutionary energy-efficiency and cost-savings potential offered by solid-state ...

A unique production process promises to bring cheaper, brighter, blue-emitting LEDs to the market. US-based start-up Oriol has developed a new design of high-brightness light-emitting diode (HB-LED).

(Nanowerk News) South Korean scientists have copied the structure of a firefly's underbelly to create what they say is an improved and cheaper LED lens. They hope the discovery will one day be used in ...

Researchers from the University of Manchester and University of Sheffield have developed a new prototype semi-transparent, graphene-based LED device that could form the basis of flexible screens for ...