Scientists have shown that far-UVC lights, which are already commercially available, can rapidly break down common airborne ...

Jon LaPook, M.D. is the award-winning chief medical correspondent for CBS News. Since joining CBS News in 2006, LaPook has delivered more than 1,200 reports on a wide variety of breaking news and ...

Ultraviolet (UV) light is a form of electromagnetic radiation that has wavelengths from ten to 400 nanometers (nm), which is shorter than visible light, but longer than X-rays. People are commonly ...

Targus has announced that its CES 2021 Innovation Awards Honoree, the UV-C LED Disinfection Light, is now available for sale. This no-touch solution helps reduce pathogens on device surfaces by ...

Fresh-Aire UV, which makes ultraviolet light products designed to improve indoor air quality (IAQ), experienced healthy annual growth for several years through 2019. Then, the coronavirus pandemic ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Automated Teller Machines have been around for more than fifty years and are used by many everyday. And ATM manufacturer, Genmega, created a device using Ultraviolet light to ...

Until the early 20th century, America regularly experienced brutally destructive urban fires. Conflagrations like the 1871 Great Chicago Fire, which destroyed more than 17,000 buildings and left ...

Manufacturers are rolling out UV-C light devices for home use to kill fungus, bacteria, and pests. Healthcare facilities and airlines have used UV-C light for many years to help control viruses and ...

With an outer shell, a physical filter, and UV light filter, high-tech face masks cut quite the profile. Credit: UM Systems The harmful radiation we ordinarily avoid could help protect us from Covid.

Now that we know the virus that causes COVID-19 can be transmitted via aerosol (tiny particles in the air that can hang around for a long time), researchers and engineers globally have turned their ...

In a recent study published on the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers demonstrate that ultraviolet light-C (UV-C) effectively prevents airborne transmission of the severe acute respiratory syndrome ...