News tagged with light bulbs

Helping the nose know: Researcher answers 100-year-old question about how olfactory feedback mechanism works

More than a century after it was first identified, Harvard scientists are shedding new light on a little-understood neural feedback mechanism that may play a key role in how the olfactory system works in the brain.

Neuroscience Dec 19, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 3 |

Discovery of ways to optimize light sources for vision could lead to billions of dollars in energy savings

Vision researchers at Barrow Neurological Institute have made a groundbreaking discovery into the optimization of light sources to human vision. By tuning lighting devices to work more efficiently with the human brain the ...

Neuroscience Nov 15, 2012 | 4.5 / 5 (8) | 3 |

Genes and immune system shaped by childhood poverty, stress

(Medical Xpress)—A University of British Columbia and Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics (CMMT) study has revealed that childhood poverty, stress as an adult, and demographics such as age, sex and ethnicity, ...

Genetics Oct 18, 2012 | not rated yet | 1 |

Living against the clock: Does loss of daily rhythms cause obesity?

When Thomas Edison tested the first light bulb in 1879, he could never have imagined that his invention could one day contribute to a global obesity epidemic. Electric light allows us to work, rest and play at all hours of ...

Medical research Aug 29, 2012 | not rated yet | 0

Could compact fluorescent bulbs pose skin cancer risk?

(HealthDay) -- As the United States bakes under the summer sun, dermatologists often warn of cancer risks posed by ultraviolet (UV) sunlight. But research now points to a new and ubiquitous indoor source of the ...

Cancer Aug 03, 2012 | 4.4 / 5 (8) | 7 |

Researchers develop laser technology to fight cancer

Researchers at the Center for Laser Applications at the University of Tennessee Space Institute in Tullahoma have developed a technology that goes on a "seek and destroy" mission for cancerous tumors. They have harnessed ...

Cancer Jul 23, 2012 | 4.8 / 5 (5) | 0 |

Study reveals harmful effects of compact fluorescent light bulbs to skin

(Medical Xpress) -- Inspired by a European study, a team of Stony Brook University researchers looked into the potential impact of healthy human skin tissue (in vitro) being exposed to ultraviolet rays emitted ...

Health Jul 19, 2012 | 1 / 5 (1) | 2

'White' light suppresses the body's production of melatonin

Exposure to the light of white LED bulbs, it turns out, suppresses melatonin 5 times more than exposure to the light of High Pressure Sodium bulbs that give off an orange-yellow light. "Just as there are regulations and standards ...

Health Sep 12, 2011 | 5 / 5 (19) | 23 |