Outdoor LED lighting projects can save energy, but they can also make light pollution worse. Late one evening in June of 2016, John Barentine stood alone at Mather Point, an iconic and rarely empty ...

Do the benefits of features like dimming and scheduling make up for the constant energy draw needed for connectivity?

Compared to incandescent lightbulbs, LEDs produce a lot more lumens per watt of input power — they’re more efficient at producing light. Of course, that means that incandescent light bulbs are more ...

Tiny wells guide nano-LEDs into place, helping turn millions of small light sources into sharper headset display pixels.

First used as status and indicator lamps, and more recently in under-shelf illumination, accent lighting, and directional marking applications, high-brightness LEDs have emerged within the last six ...

Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have revolutionized modern lighting and sensing technology. From applications in our homes to industry, LEDs are used for all lighting applications, from indoor lighting ...

Under museum lights, the vibrant yellows in Vincent van Gogh’s iconic sunflower paintings have muddied over time. The yellow pigment van Gogh used—lead chromate, more popularly known as chrome ...

The first official LED was created in 1927 by Russian inventor Oleg Losev, however, the discovery of electroluminescence was made two decades prior. British experimenter H. J. Round of Marconi Labs ...

Engineers from Seoul National University and other labs are quietly redrawing what household lighting could look like, replacing today’s bulbs with thin films made from crystalline perovskites. Early ...

Anyone who has stood in confusion in the light-bulb aisle (and that's most of us) knows that technology and the push to save energy are continuing to flip the script on home lighting options. The good ...

Bella covered TVs and home entertainment technology for CNET. She earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from Ohio State University, where she was editor-in-chief of the independent student ...

Keeping up with new TV tech isn’t easy. Every few years, shoppers see new marketing jargon for features that promise impressive improvements but often don’t live up to the hype. But we’re actually ...