A Serious Blog
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Glowing plants - The greenest path to sustainable lighting
March 09, 2022Glowing plants have grown 10x brighter in just five years. All they require are advanced nanobionics, photonic capacitors and new, powerful phosphors. Don’t worry - we’ll explain.Read more… -
Why Daylight LEDs are the future of light design
February 08, 2022It would be hard to argue against the fact that LED technology has transformed light design.Read more… -
Light Pollution Affects Species of British Moths
September 07, 2021A study on moth populations shows a cataclysmic decline across certain moth populations. Is light pollution the cause?Read more… -
Green light is shown to reduce migraine frequency and intensity
July 29, 2021A recent study has discovered that exposing migraine sufferers to a narrow band of green light significantly reduces light sensitivity and headache severity.Read more… -
Lights, camera, atmosphere! How lighting conveys emotion in movies
May 06, 2021Lighting is an excellent communicator that enables filmmakers to speak to us, the audience, more effectively. It creates a visual mood and sense of meaning in ways that we may not ever have realised when watching our favourite films.Read more… -
The health benefits of longer, lighter days
April 01, 2021Now that the clocks have sprung forward and we get to enjoy longer, lighter days, it’s worth looking into all the positive benefits this additional sunlight has on our health and well-being.Read more… -
Your three-step plan for easing into British Summer Time
March 22, 2021The reason the clock change can have such an effect is because our circadian rhythm is designed to stay in the same cycle each day and night, give or take a few minutes here and there, and can’t easily adjust a full hour in one go.Read more… -
Three types of light to improve your work-from-home life
March 01, 2021There are many elements that come together to create the perfect environment for working from home.Read more… -
Study shows UV-LEDs can kill coronaviruses
January 18, 2021A ground-breaking first-of-its-kind study conducted by researchers at Tel Aviv University has found that coronaviruses can be killed efficiently, quickly and cheaply using ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (UV-LEDs).Read more… -
Scientists switch DNA on and off using light
January 18, 2021DNA is the basis of life on earth. The function of DNA is to carry genetic information. It has all the instructions an organism needs to develop, function and reproduce.Read more…