UV light sanitizers are popping up as the answer to killing coronavirus on our hands and phones, but consumer devices may have more risks than they're worth. With man-made hand sanitizer in short ...

In a pandemic, people grow desperate for cures, so it’s no surprise that the worldwide outbreak of COVID-19 has people searching for anything that might protect them. Where there’s demand, supply ...

The pandemic means we’re all fixated on hygiene. Riding the coattails of our newfound obsession with cleanliness is a technology that for years has lurked in the background: ultraviolet light (UV).

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 ...

Researchers have built a new platform that produces ultrashort UV-C laser pulses and detects them at room temperature using atom-thin materials. The light flashes last just femtoseconds and can be ...

There is no cure for COVID-19, no way to mitigate its virus in our bodies other than our own antibodies. But that hasn’t stopped people from suggesting otherwise. After writing about copper’s ability ...

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 ...

Senior Vice President of Global Sales at OSRAM Opto Semiconductors and President and CEO at OSRAM Opto Semiconductors Inc., in the U.S.A. Covid-19 has changed the way we live. Among its many impacts, ...