News tagged with white light


Feeling disgust may enhance our ability to detect impurities

Disgust – it's an emotion we experience when we encounter things that are dirty, impure, or otherwise contaminated. From an evolutionary standpoint, experiencing the intense, visceral sense of revulsion that comes with ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Dec 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New scientific method unmasks chronic infections

Chronic infections are a large and growing problem throughout the developed world, and intensive research is being conducted in ways to combat the recalcitrant bacteria. When bacteria aggregate into so-called biofilm, they ...

Medical research created Aug 08, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Do white LEDs disrupt our biological clocks?

You come into contact every day with light-emitting diodes (LEDs) -- they illuminate alarm clocks, new televisions, traffic lights, and smartphone displays. Increasingly, you will see white-light versions ...

Health created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

'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 created Sep 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (19) | comments 23 | with audio podcast