This all happens through wires and requires that the lights you want to connect to the switch are bound by long strands of ...

A nanostructure made of silver and an atomically thin semiconductor layer can be turned into an ultrafast switching mirror ...

In 2023, a team of physicists from Sandia National Laboratories announced a major discovery: a way to steer LED light. If ...

For most people, the loss of a sense such as sight is devastating, not only for intensifying vulnerability, but for undermining quality of life. While prostheses can be functionally useful, they can’t ...

Beth Touchette reflects on her family’s tradition of hanging Christmas lights. Every December, my father would wind a string of the large bulbs, blue only, around one pine tree at the far edge of our ...

The Philips Hue app has grown in complexity over the past several years, with more and more new features and settings being tucked into the user interface. That makes it all too easy to miss the ...

Apple in macOS Tahoe 26.2 introduced Edge Light, a clever new feature that turns your Mac's display into a virtual ring light during video calls. Instead of fumbling with external lighting equipment, ...

Abstract: This paper focus on the idea of automatic lightning system and peculiar way of implementation with embedded tool systems. The proposed method is used to measure and control the intensity of ...

Photons, for centuries both a puzzle and a tool, continue to help scientists illuminate nature at the smallest and largest scales. Photons, the fundamental particles of the electromagnetic field that ...

Quantum communication is edging closer to reality thanks to a breakthrough in teleporting information between photons from different quantum dots—one of the biggest challenges in building a quantum ...

Many of us dread having to go through that poorly timed intersection in our area where the light is red for several minutes, turns green just long enough to let maybe three cars through, then changes ...