Science news articles about 'ultraviolet light'

... Medical Center researchers show. Phototherapy is the use of ultraviolet light to treat skin disorders, ranging ... an experimental treatment that uses a highly specific range of ultraviolet light (UVA1) for some patients. Other treatments may include ...

... out and the liquid crystals fall into line, which allows gas to easily flow through the holes. But when ultraviolet light illuminates the surface, the dye molecules ...

... sun's ultraviolet light activates an enzyme that helps skin cancer cells survive and proliferate ... for basal cell carcinoma, they suspected the link between ultraviolet radiation and protein kinase D. Now ...

... carrots to UV-B, one of the three kinds of ultraviolet light in sunshine, can boost the antioxidant activity of the colorful veggie. That's according to preliminary studies by U.S. Department ...

Researchers have discovered that the ultraviolet (UV) light that causes the temporary but painful condition of snow blindness ... Glen Jeffery said "We discovered that reindeer can not only see ultraviolet light but they can also make sense of the image to find ...

Researchers in Spain have discovered that ultraviolet light affects the function of the protein EWS, the mutation of which is responsible for Ewing’s sarcoma. The results indicate ...

... the energy of infrared laser pulses using a nano funnel enabling them to generate extreme ultraviolet light pulses, which repeated 75 million ...

Existing coherent ultraviolet light sources are power hungry, bulky and expensive. University of Michigan researchers have found a better way to build compact ultraviolet sources with low power consumption that could improve ...

Since its launch five years ago, the Galaxy Evolution Explorer has photographed hundreds of millions of galaxies in ultraviolet light.

... beads and special photochemicals that glow under ultraviolet light to achieve a heightened level of sensitivity ... dye that glows in the dark when illuminated with blue or ultraviolet light. The new assay works well ...

... into a soft film on the surface of a semiconductor wafer. The film is hardened, usually by heating or exposure to ultraviolet light, and the film retains the impressed pattern ...

... of their technique, the team fabricated hundreds of nanoscale ultraviolet light-emitting diodes by using zinc oxide ... great promise for integrating efficient light emitters, from ultraviolet to infrared, with silicon technology. The team ...

... of Canadian scientists using a lotion which glows under ultraviolet light have shown that up to a third of patient toilets ... weekday for six months and checked using UV light to determine how well they had been cleaned. In addition, samples ...

... appears in the May 15 issue of Cancer Research. "The question at the core of this research was, 'Why does ultraviolet light induce skin cancer?'" said lead ...

... Berger of Princeton University, USA, were using the satellite, which measures gamma rays, X rays and ultraviolet light, to observe another supernova in a spiral ...