People who tested a new type of designer contact lens could see flashing infrared signals from a light source. Humans have a new way of seeing infrared light, without the need for clunky night-vision ...

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Scientists have developed revolutionary contact lenses that grant wearers the ability to see infrared light—a feat humans naturally cannot achieve. This breakthrough, detailed in the journal Cell00454 ...

What is an infrared sauna? Unlike the saunas you may know from your local fitness facility, infrared saunas use electromagnetic radiation from infrared lamps to warm your body, as opposed to heating ...

In a previous study, researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China demonstrated how injecting nanoparticles into the retinas of mice allowed them to see in the near-infrared range ...

Humans didn’t discover the presence of infrared light until well into the 1800s, and it’s taken us significantly longer to begin to crack what this portion of the visible light spectrum means. But ...