Your tablet, smartphone, laptop, and flat screen TV all have one thing in common: They each give off blue light. You may know them by the acronym ROY G BIV. Together, they make the white light you see ...
Blue light usually comes from the sun but also from digital screens and LED lights. Some experts believe artificial sources may be causing eye damage in humans, but animal studies are inconclusive.
What is blue light? “All the light we see is made up of different wavelengths of light,” says Vivienne Sinh Hau, MD, an ophthalmologist at Kaiser Permanente in Riverside, California. “Certain ...