Mercedes-Benz Style has joined hands with Italian light design company Artemide and the two companies will showcase their latest product at the “Light + Building” trade fair in Frankfurt. It embodies the Mercedes-Benz design ...
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W San Francisco unveiled Lumina, a vibrant and otherworldly light sculpture towering at 27 feet, inside the hotel’s three-story entrance at the corner of 3rd and Howard streets. A commanding, lustrous mass reminiscent of cosmic star ...
The Welsh City Council in UK has switched to LED lights, since traditional sodium lights was interfering with local glow worm population’s reproduction habits, reported Daily Post. In short, the male glow worms were more attracted ...
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A Mayer and A Bay of University of Namur in Belgium have applied a 'genetic algorithm' to the problem of finding optimal surface textures for light extraction from gallium nitride (GaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Journal of Optics, ...
The colours of nature with its infinite vibrations inspire the Summer Collection 2016 by Sensitive Fabrics. From the energy of the early-morning sun as its rays fill the sky to the glittering, lustrous surface of the ocean depths and ...
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Many people may not know that nature contains a naturally glowing light source, bioluminescence. This naturally occurring glowing algae generally shows up in the ocean during certain times and places when the ocean’s algae count is ...
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The artist Shih Chieh Huang spent almost a year exploring deep-ocean specimens at the National Museum of Natural History. As a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow, this assistant had a mission to investigate under water specimens ability to ...
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The night time twinkling of fireflies has inspired scientists to modify an LED light bulb so that it is more than one and a half times as efficient as the original. Researchers from Belgium, France and Canada carried out extensive ...
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Photuris firefly scales Researchers from Belgium, France and Canada have drawn inspiration from nature by mimicking the design of the bioluminescent firefly, which they say can help maximise the glow on LEDs by up to 55 per cent. A ...
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The nighttime twinkling of fireflies has inspired scientists to modify a light-emitting diode (LED) so it is more than one and a half times as efficient as the original. Researchers from Belgium, France, and Canada studied the internal ...
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i It’s debatable, but perhaps fireflies might have been the inspiration Edison used to create the light bulb. Nevertheless, fireflies have not only fascinated admirers at night, but scientists as well. Recently, science has used the ...
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This week in kitsch lighting is the Amazing Jellyfish Lamp.Jellyfish are the most abundant species on the planet.They contain GFP,a bioluminescent protein that allows them to glow in the dark.It is mainly used as a defense mechanism by ...
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This striking image of bright blue water washing up on the shore of a Maldives Island left many people scratching their heads when it first appeared. While it appears almost magical,in reality the bright blue water washing up on the shore ...
Tags: Bright Blue, Phytoplankton, Bioluminescent