But in the 1990s, chemists developed new types of persistent photoluminescent materials, such as strontium aluminate, that maintained a strong glow for hours after exposure to light.

“The quantum dots were supposed to emit blue light, but instead they were giving off a beautiful white glow.” “The exciting thing about this is that it is a nano-nanoscience phenomenon ...

The team found that white and light-colored fur was fluorescent in 107 out of the 125 species, ... Travouillon warned nature lovers not to shine a UV light to spot glowing mammals at night.

The LEDs in most LCD TVs emit white light, but those in quantum-dot televisions emit blue light. ... It's lit with an ultraviolet flashlight, which is what makes the dots glow red. Nanosys.

When the blue LED shines on the quantum dot-saturated sheet of film and the dots start glowing red and green, all three of them combine to create the ideal white light.

FROG GETS THE BLUE-GREENS Under white light, a polka dot frog’s translucent skin shows hints of lymph, colored blue-green by a compound called biliverdin that also turns its bones slightly cyan. C.

Artificial light is bad news for a wide range of wildlife, but it can be a particular challenge for a unique subset of species: those that make their own glow. “With bioluminescent creatures ...

Glowing fly larvae gives Alabama one of the best natural light shows on Earth. Published: Jan. 15, 2024, 7:00 a.m. ... a dark canvas pierced by dots of blue-white light.

Australian Mammals’ Black Light Glow Is Caused By Several Different Molecules It’s hard to believe these colors are all just a happy accident, but it seems that might be so. Stephen Luntz ...

The Van Gogh bike path in Eindhoven is inspired by the artist’s painting The Starry Night. Similar glow-in-the-dark paths and roads could eventually save energy for lighting while cooling cities ...