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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Like Dyson's laser, the Shark UV light provides tangible proof that it did a good job.

In the summer of 2024, the researchers hit the road, chasing storms from Florida to Pennsylvania. Finally, they got lucky: While camped out during a thunderstorm in Pembroke, North Carolina, they ...

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 ...