For the past six years, the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has been working with a color chemist to produce paint pigments that correspond to each nanometer of the visible light spectrum.

How can we measure visible light? The electromagnetic spectrum includes all forms of light energy, known as electromagnetic radiation. (1) Different types of electromagnetic radiation such as radio ...

A new type of versatile economical photocatalyst that harnesses the visible portion of the sunlight spectrum has been developed by researchers from the University of Johannesburg. It is simple to ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — By combining visible light and electrochemistry, researchers have enhanced the conversion of carbon dioxide into valuable products and stumbled upon a surprising discovery. The team ...

Human bodies are not quite as dark as they look. A growing body of research suggests that living tissue constantly releases an ultraweak glow, a stream of photons that appears to switch off when life ...

Have you ever wondered what the invisible world of radio waves might look like if you could actually see it? Rootkid explains how his project, the Spectrum Slit, transforms the unseen chaos of ...