Artificial light is bad news for a wide range of wildlife, but it can be a particular challenge for a unique subset of species: those that make their own glow. "With bioluminescent creatures, you can ...

While light bulbs make our nights brighter, they are dimming the social lives, and survival rates, of some of nature’s natural light-makers: fireflies. A 2021 report found that 1 in 3 North American ...

When they make their first journey into the ocean, fledgling Atlantic puffins are prone to being stranded on land, imperiling them. For years, scientists have wondered what leads to these strandings.

Source: Sherri and Brock Fenton, used with permission. Darkness is a diminishing natural resource. Over the last hundred years, human development and urbanization have changed the nocturnal landscape, ...

Light serves an essential purpose in architecture: to help us see. Whether it be through natural or artificial methods, rooms must be illuminated accordingly so occupants can safely inhabit them and ...

The technologies that once promised to free us from soul-crushing office jobs have mostly resulted in just the opposite. But Mitsubishi is leveraging one technology in an attempt to make working in a ...

Sandia scientists demonstrate AI's role in directing LED light, potentially transforming technologies with energy-efficient ...