Indoor growing offers many advantages. The biggest benefits are the most obvious: garden pests can’t get at your plants, and you have total control over the weather. Yet unless you’re lucky enough to ...

A multidisciplinary team from three universities found that indoor lighting of various hues so strongly influences listeners’ ...

As compared to their more commonly-seen counterparts that utilize crystalline silicon semiconductors, organic solar cells are thin, flexible, lightweight and cheap, allowing for their application in a ...

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The study shows that color, light, and music interact to shape how listeners emotionally experience the same songs.

Ambient light is a prime source of harvestable energy for low-power electronics devices. Most photovoltaic cells, however, are designed to work with direct sunlight and are ineffective indoors. Now, ...

Growing food indoors presents some challenges, but there are advantages. Microgreens or sprouts can be grown in compact trays on a sunny windowsill.

If your home gets little natural light and you think a lush jungle oasis is out of reach, think again. While plants like aloe vera or jade might not do well in dimly lit rooms, the best low-light ...

From Wi-Fi-connected home security systems to smart toilets, the so-called Internet of Things brings personalization and convenience to devices that help run homes. But with that comes tangled ...

It might sound counterintuitive to put solar cells indoors, but there’s still plenty of light energy inside that’s largely going to waste. Now, a team of engineers is claiming to have created flexible ...