Let there be light within the bowels of a combine. Blue LED light is a non-chemical weapon capable of stunting the growth of herbicide-resistant weed seeds, but what if LED technology could be ...

I’m a night owl, and I love playing pickleball. I’m lucky to live in a condo complex with four pickleball courts. But I often have to start work early, making morning games a challenge, and none of my ...

URBANA, Ill. (AP) — A retired University of Illinois physicist is questioning whether a Nobel Prize awarded Tuesday to two Japanese and a Japanese-born American scientist ignores the work he and ...

LED Inventor Nick Holonyak Reflects on Discovery 50 Years Later Celebrating 50 years since the advent of LED technology, Nick Holonyak compares his first visible LED invention to GE Lighting's latest ...

Shuji Nakamura, the inventor of the blue light-emitting diode, will continue his fight for adequate compensation for his invention despite a Tokyo district court ruling that Nichia, his former ...

Three scientists who succeeded in inventing efficient blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) where many companies had failed have won the Nobel Prize in Physics. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on ...

If you love the lasers of science fiction, rejoice because the future will be full of them, according to Nobel laureate Shuji Nakamura, co-inventor of the blue light-emitting diode (LED). The power ...

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