lighting
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Seeing Too Much Light at Night May Raise Your Stroke Risk
Too much light at night may be bad for our brains, research out this week suggests. In a population of city residents in China, researchers found a link between increased exposure to artificial outdoor light at night and a greater risk of stroke. Unsurprisingly, they also found that more exposure to air pollution was linked…
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Glow-Worms Can’t Find Their Spark Under Harsh Light Pollution
Nights on Earth are getting brighter with the spread of human light pollution, reducing humankind’s visibility of the cosmos. But the brightening night is also messing with glow-worms, spunky insects that rely on their luminous abdomens to procreate.
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Lenovo Wants Your Desk Lamp to Charge Your Phone and Hold Your Webcam
A webcam, a light, a charger, and a USB hub: this lamp does it all.
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Blue Light Speeds Up Ageing? In Flies, Maybe
A new study this week suggests that long-term exposure to blue light may not be so harmless, at least for fruit flies. Researchers found that chronic blue light exposure prematurely aged the flies and damaged their brains, likely due to certain metabolic changes. But it’s not known whether blue light could cause similar harm in…