When you flip a switch or power up your smartphone, the last thing on your mind is whether that light could be messing with ...

In many cities today, streets are lit by white lights, screens show vivid colors, and buildings glow with precise patterns of illumination, all depending on a small but important invention from the ...

Three scientists, Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura, have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on blue LEDs. Since the development of the first blue LEDs in the early ...

Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are so ubiquitous that it's easy to forget just how much society relies on these underappreciated technological wonders. Yet, the history of the LED goes back further than ...