This Halloween, it’s time to see scorpions, millipedes and other creepy crawlers in a new light. Using ultraviolet flashlights and light-filtering glasses, a group of community scientists is ...

Ultraviolet light has a long history as a disinfectant and the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, is readily rendered harmless by UV light. The question is how best to harness UV light to fight ...

The world’s astronomers now have access to amazing details about the invisible ultraviolet light from the Sun, thanks to a new ‘spectral atlas’ prepared with the SUMER instrument on the SOHO ...

A March 3 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) displays several images of humans and the sun. "Being ‘burned’ is a mindset," reads the post's text. "The sun does NOT cause skin cancer." It was ...

Ultraviolet perception is incredibly common in animals—just not in humans. Ed Yong dives into the history of how scientists saw the light. The following is an excerpt from An Immense World: How Animal ...

Scientists report the technical details of pioneering research they conducted on the disinfection of drinking water using ultraviolet (UV) light. While awaiting full access to their labs due to ...

As Christmas nears, so too do fun memes with purported wintery arctic facts. One popular addition to this genre is the claim that reindeer are the only mammals capable of seeing ultraviolet (UV) light ...

I ran an obscure pharmaceutical company until a few days ago. Then we got famous. Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, Aytu BioScience made a commitment to find ways to help. One of those ways came through ...