The images show the whitening and brightening of the city. (Courtesy: A Sánchez de Miguel et al/Science Advances/CC BY 4.0) The shift to LED street lighting is producing more blue-light pollution – an ...

Faulty LED streetlights have been turning purple for ... the yellowish phosphor and silicon mixture that filtered the blue light to make it white began to crack and split, eventually falling ...

New street lights along a protected sea turtle nesting area in Boca Raton appear to be amber LEDs, which are safer for turtles because they emit less blue light. In that 2016 report, the AMA ...

Additionally, overly bright streetlights create a driving hazard, since they constrict pupils that would otherwise dilate under darker conditions, Motta says. “Blue light scatters much more in ...

Many LED light bulbs used for street lights actually give off a purple-blue light by default. In order to split this light into the whole spectrum of colors that creates white light, manufacturers ...

Though they're so common that we don't typically give them much thought, lights are fascinating elements of the modern world. By sending an electrical current through a conductor, extreme amounts ...

The phosphor can absorb some of the blue wavelengths so that only the red and yellow ones come out, which makes the white light that streetlights primarily shine. But in this case, the phosphor ...

Traditionally, paved roads and pedestrian walkways have been illuminated by streetlights emitting a ... going from sodium lamps to LED (light emitting diode) lighting for the cost savings in ...

Over 2024, the number of Seattle's broken streetlights doubled, and continues to grow as repairs fall behind outages. Some ...

told the Kansas City Star when it’s only blue light, it can be harder for the human eye to distinguish detail. It is unclear if these purple streetlights have caused traffic accidents where ...