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 ...

New research has revealed how light can be used to destroy infectious coronavirus particles that contaminate surfaces. Scientists are interested in how environments, such as surgeries, can be ...

Ultraviolet (UV) (10-400 nm) light is everywhere. It constitutes 10 percent of the total electromagnetic radiation in the sunlight. There are three bands of UV we encounter on earth, UVA (315–400 nm), ...

Virology laboratory testing of ultraviolet-C (UVC) light conducted at the University of Nevada Reno has confirmed sterilization of a human coronavirus of the COVID-19 family at a distance of 5 feet in ...

PITTSBURGH — A Pittsburgh tech company is hoping to partner with two local school districts to test its ultraviolet disinfection robots to fight the coronavirus. Safe Space Technologies’ robots are ...

As a powerful solution against coronavirus strains, UVC light will become more relevant in our globalized world where pathogens like influenza can spread almost as ...

For some time now, it’s been established that the primary route of SARS-CoV-2 transmission is airborne. Research suggests that contagious particles are released into the air and linger for several ...

Ultraviolet (UV) light is a type of radiation. It has more energy than radio waves or visible light but less energy than X-rays or gamma rays. You can be exposed to UV light via natural sunlight or ...