The world's indoor spaces are increasingly being lit by fluorescent light sources. While this trend seems good for energy efficiency, it turns out to be a serious problem for CCD video cameras. And ...

Q: My home is about 20 years old. My problem is with the lights in the kitchen. Sometimes they work and sometimes they don’t. When I turn on the switch, the light flickers or just partially lights. I ...

Fluorescent lights are one of those things that you see everywhere, but that nobody likes. They flicker, they hum, they produce a rather unattractive light, plus they’re fragile and contain toxic ...

A new plastic-based lighting technology produces a consistent, silent white glow that’s pleasing on the eyes. Image by Ken Bennett, Wake Forest University photographer Chances are, sometime today, you ...

Fluorescent lights are more efficient than incandescent ones, but also more complicated. As a result, simply replacing the bulb-actually a tube-when a fluorescent light develops problems will not ...

A huge complaint by homeowners living near wind turbines concerns light flicker created by the rotating blades during daylight hours. When the first fluorescent lights came out they created ...

Many readers wrote in to share their experiences with lighting in response to the Home&Garden article about energy-efficient alternatives such as fluorescents, halogens and LEDs. From homeowners who ...

THE annoying flicker of fluorescent lights could be replaced by the cool white glow of zinc oxide LEDs, now that a US company has found a cheap way to crystallise the oxide from a solution. White ...

When most people hear the words 'fluorescent lighting,' they immediately respond with 'you can't shoot under fluorescent lighting without the video having a green tint to it.' They will then proceed ...