Coronae glow on the tips of spruce needles, induced by charged metal plates in a laboratory. (William Brune) For the first ...

Ultraviolet cameras captured faint electrical flashes from leaves and branches as storm charges built up in the atmosphere.

Installing one type of UV air filter in heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems led to a more than twofold decrease in microbes linked to asthma, researchers reported recently at the annual ...

In the summer of 2024, the researchers hit the road, chasing storms from Florida to Pennsylvania. Finally, they got lucky: While camped out during a thunderstorm in Pembroke, North Carolina, they ...

Researchers have captured the first direct evidence of coronae in the wild as they observed a sweetgum tree and loblolly pine ...

Consumers can protect their skin from damaging ultraviolet (UV) light rays for as little as $40 a year—or as much as $1,400 a ...

While other robot vacuums are busy bumping into things around your home and making a racket, Shark's latest model is taking a ...

Astronomers working with data from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment, known as HETDEX, say they have produced ...

Deer have the ability to see ultraviolet light, and a recent study shows they can also leave a glowing trail visible in those wavelengths, too. The discovery casts a whole new light on the way deer ...

The new heterojunction solar module concept is based on co-extruded EVA/POE/EVA (EPE) encapsulant with UV downshifting (UV-DS) films, which convert harmful UV light into blue light, protecting cells ...

Researchers from Nanchang University and Trina Solar found that TOPCon solar modules exhibit metastable “degradation–recovery” under UV exposure, with light soaking fully restoring performance and no ...