Blue Light Blues.

• Autores: Ferris Jabr
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 315, Nº. 5, 2016, págs. 24-25
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article discusses the effects of blue light from electronic devices on people's ability to sleep. Topics discussed include the claim that blue light from the screens of computers and smartphones suppresses the hormone that induces sleepiness called melatonin, the solutions developed to help people sleep, such as tinted eyeglasses and natural lighting systems and the features of the f.lux program developed by Lorna and Michael Herf to vary the photons emitted by their computer screens.