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That is because UV light kills up to 99.9% of germs, bacteria and viruses and that may include the coronavirus. "The thing about ultraviolet is it is of sufficient energy to cause damage to cells ...

Conventional UV-C light has been used extensively in places like hospitals, homeless shelters and prisons. But that conventional UV light can damage the skin and eye, so should not be shined ...

For years, doctors and health professionals have been using ultraviolet light as a disinfectant. Now, a major ceiling fan manufacturer is mounting UV lights onto the base of its smart ceiling fans ...

South America is home to all manner of crazy-looking amphibians, from vibrant poison dart frogs to cartoon ... light and re-emits it at longer wavelengths, explains Nowogrodzki. For instance ...

President Donald Trump has questioned whether injecting people with disinfectants and exposing patients' bodies to UV light could help treat the coronavirus. The Reality Check team has been ...

Here's how these UV light sanitizers actually work. UV light is highly effective at killing germs The three main types of UV rays are UVA, UVB, and UVC. Because UVC rays have the shortest ...

However regretful, people who own the cryptocurrency-backed digital images of nonchalant cartoon primates are ... due to exposure to UV light. The New York Times reported as of Tuesday that ...

"There are ads on TV for UV lights that kill all bacteria and viruses just by waving the light over the surface. Is this true?" asked 13News viewer Mike. During the pandemic, one of the sanitation ...

The idea is to suffuse indoor areas with continuous, low doses of short-wavelength ultraviolet light. As anyone who's had a sunburn knows, conventional UV light exposure is hazardous to humans ...

“We’ve known for a century that UV light is extremely efficient at killing microbes, bacteria, and viruses,” says study leader David Brenner, director of the Center for Radiological Research ...

Scorpions are one of many animals that appear to glow under ultraviolet (UV) light. Scientists are finding that photoluminescence is more common than previously suspected. Shine an ultraviolet ...