Neon lamps are fun to play with. These old-school indicators were once heavily utilized in many types of equipment for indication purposes but now seem largely relegated to mains voltage indication ...

There are a few categories or functions of light when calling for a specific unit to be used in a scene. The director of photography starts most importantly with the story, what is going on in a ...

Observations of the dense remnant of an exploded star have provided the first sign of a quantum effect on light passing through empty space. “It’s the most natural explanation,” says astrophysicist ...

It is tempting to believe that effects arising from Einstein’s theory of relativity, where objects move at speeds close to the speed of light, arise mainly at very large length scales, for example the ...

Mary Corse, “Untitled (Black Light Painting)” (1975) (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) Mary Corse: A Survey in Light at the Whitney Museum is the first sustained look offered by a New York ...

Artificial light at night can have a disruptive effect on bats, but not if the light is red. Switching to red light may therefore limit or prevent habitat loss for rare, light-shy bat species, report ...