A century ago, glow-in-the-dark watches were an irresistible novelty. The dials, covered in a special luminous paint, shone all the time and didn’t require charging in sunlight. It looked like magic.

In the early 1900s, Dr. Sabin Arnold von Sochocky formulated a radium-based paint that glowed in the dark. For many years the radio-luminescent paint was used on things like watch faces so they could ...

YAMADA, Iwate Prefecture--Emergency stairways in this coastal town are now coated in a special luminous paint to help guide residents to safety even after dark if disaster strikes. The luminous paint ...

FARGO — A North Dakota State University researcher has helped uncover what causes a pigment used in luminous paint to glow in the dark for hours. Khang Hoang has identified specific defects ...

A luminous watch, for those unfamiliar, has hands and indexes coated with paint that stores light, allowing the time to be read in darkness. A nighttime saviour for adventurers and soldiers alike, ...

You don’t need to add lights to pimp up your motorcycle now that Australian company LuminAuz has produced paint work that can be electrically charged to light up. Their first motorcycle using LuminAuz ...

At the outbreak of war , our family lived in a large terrace house, with the grandparents on the ground floor and the rest of us in the four upper rooms. Grandfather had been retired some time, so the ...

“Smart paint” containing fluorescent and phosphorescent pigments could extend the possibilities of proposed LiFi networks, report a team led by K S Narayan at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced ...

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