Platypuses are weird looking. They look like someone stitched together a duck and a beaver—flat bill, webbed feet, and a ...

Scorpions are surprisingly easy to find in the desert at night with one simple tool: an ultraviolet flashlight. When exposed ...

Physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have demonstrated a new kind of vacuum ultraviolet laser that is 100 to 1,000 times more efficient than existing technologies of its kind. The ...

Physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have demonstrated a new type of vacuum ...

Geiger Muller tubes are designed to detect ionizing radiation, but many people wonder if ultraviolet light can affect their readings. This experiment explores whether UV exposure can trigger a ...

While other robot vacuums are busy bumping into things around your home and making a racket, Shark's latest model is taking a ...

Some animal facts sound like they were invented for shock value, but then you check the research and realize they are ...

Installing one type of UV air filter in heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems led to a more than twofold decrease in microbes linked to asthma, researchers reported recently at the annual ...

Coronae glow on the tips of spruce needles, induced by charged metal plates in a laboratory. (William Brune) For the first ...

Researchers from Nanchang University and Trina Solar found that TOPCon solar modules exhibit metastable “degradation–recovery” under UV exposure, with light soaking fully restoring performance and no ...

Researchers have captured the first direct evidence of coronae in the wild as they observed a sweetgum tree and loblolly pine ...