Scientists are tapping into photographs taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to reliably measure the amount of light pollution worldwide. This study not only includes the well-known signatures of cities and ...
According to the data compiled by NPD, U.S. watch sales fell to a seven-year low in June 2015. Retailers sold $375 million timepieces during June, 11% less than one year ago. It is the worst decline since 2008, unit sales dropped 14 %. ...
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Wael Ayyoub, Senior Project Manager at the diversified global manufacturing company Emerson, is delighted with the reaction from employees and staff in the company’s two new buildings forming part of its regional headquarters in ...
Tags: Philips, LED Lighting, Natural Light
Illumitex and The Pennsylvania State University are pleased to announce an educational partnership that has resulted in more than 400 Illumitex Eclipse ES2 LED grow lights being put into service in multiple greenhouses operated by the ...
A study by researchers at De Montfort University in Leicester found that cooking with vegetable oils releases toxic chemicals which are linked to cancer and other diseases. The scientists recommend food to be fried in olive oil, ...
Tags: Cooking, Vegetable Oil, olive oil, coconut oil
As part of the Graphene Applications Innovation Centre, CPI is bringing together specialist dispersion characterization, and applications testing capability alongside a team of leading scientists with a vast array of experience in industry, ...
A Dartmouth College team has created the first light-sensing system that reconstructs human postures continuously and unobtrusively, furthering efforts to create smart spaces in which people control their environment with simple gestures. ...
Research reported in Applied Physics Express (APEX) by Tohru Oka and colleagues at the Research and Development Headquarters for TOYODA GOSEI Co., Ltd in Japan describe the development of ‘vertically orientated’ GaN-based ...
The City of Sonsonate in El Salvador became the first city in Latin America to adopt GE's intelligent lighting system, a powerful combination of white light LED fixtures and GE's LightGrid, a web central management system designed with ...
Tags: intelligent lighting system, LED technology, Smart LED
Tetra Pak has released a major report on millennials, detailing how brands can tailor their packaging to this big-spending demographic. The packaging supplier has described this 20-35 age group as the largest generational group in ...
A new study has found that there may be health benefits to consuming whole-fat dairy products. Published in the latest Journal of Nutrition, scientists discovered making full-fat dairy as part of a diet can lower the chances of an ...
Tags: Full-Fat Dairy, full-fat cheese, milk, yoghurt
Coles has launched a new online shopping technology system to help woo more online shoppers. In doing so, the Coles supermarkets group has told The Australian that it created ‘Rover Power Pick’ which simplifies the way Coles ...
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As car manufacturers continue to introduce new technologies in their vehicles, blind-spot warning systems and back-up cameras are the technologies mature drivers are most willing to adopt1, according to new research by The Hartford and the ...
Tags: blind-spot warning systems, back-up cameras, smart headlights
New research may help explain why drug treatments for addiction and depression don’t work for some patients. The conditions are linked to reward and aversion responses in the brain. Working in mice, researchers at Washington ...
Tags: medical applications, Micro LED
The German photonics sector will employ 165,000 people in the country by the end of the decade, according to a market and industry study presented by Photonik Forschung Deutschland at the LASER World of Photonics trade show in Munich. ...