The type of light we are exposed to—natural or artificial—can have profound effects on our physical and mental health. Our current lifestyle makes us more accessible to artificial light than ...

Artificial light fills the gap when natural light is insufficient for whatever we’re up to, for whatever reason, at night, for example. Circadian lighting systems project varying sorts of light ...

Can plants grow in artificial light? Wondering how to grow plants indoors? It’s possible to grow indoor plants using both natural and artificial light. MacGyver is legendary for his ability to ...

Paul Bogard, author of “The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light,” is an associate professor of English and environmental studies at Hamline University in ...

During the natural daylight intervention, the light intensity was usually highest at 12:30pm, with an average reading of 2,453 lux. The artificial light was a constant 300 lux. Evenings were spent ...

Night on planet Earth is getting brighter as artificial light illuminates more natural spaces. Scientists know a lot about how this messes with ecosystems on land, but new research shows it can ...

Now, in a series of studies that offer a new way of thinking about an old mystery, scientists say that insects do this because an artificial light can mess with their natural way of knowing what ...

The light is artificial, but your body will think it’s natural light from the sun. The light tells your body to stop making a “sleep hormone” called melatonin. If you do light therapy ...

While light bulbs make our nights brighter, they are dimming the social lives, and survival rates, of some of nature’s natural light-makers ... leading firefly experts identified habitat loss and ...

Our current lifestyle makes us more accessible to artificial light than natural light. The impact of light on human health is poorly understood, despite the profound impact it has. With this in ...