{"id":2656,"date":"2025-05-23T11:07:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T11:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/23\/scientists-create-see-in-the-dark-contact-lenses\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T11:07:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T11:07:21","slug":"scientists-create-see-in-the-dark-contact-lenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/23\/scientists-create-see-in-the-dark-contact-lenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists create see-in-the-dark contact lenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-05-23 11:07:21<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Scientists have developed contact lenses that enable people to see in the dark.<BR><br \/>\nResearchers from the University of Science and Technology in Hefei, China, have created the unique item can only detect infrared radiation from an LED light.<BR><br \/>\nBut the team is working to improve the sensitivity of the nanoparticles, which absorb the invisible light from the infrared radiation and turn it into visible wavelengths.<BR><br \/>\nThis is so the contact lenses can find lower levels of infrared light that is invisible to human eyes.<BR><br \/>\nThe scientists combined the nanoparticles with flexible and non-toxic polymers that are used in ordinary contact lenses &#8211; thin lenses placed on the eyes so people can see clearly &#8211; and the results showed people could clearly spot infrared signals in darkness.<BR><br \/>\nWriting in the journal Cell, the team said: &#8220;Light plays a particularly essential role in conveying a significant amount of external information for living organisms to comprehend the world.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;However, mammals can only perceive a small fraction of the electromagnetic spectrum as visible light.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;This means that over half of the solar radiation energy, existing as infrared light, remains imperceptible to mammals.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Here, we report wearable near-infrared upconversion contact lenses with suitable optical properties\u2026flexibility and biocompatibility.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Humans wearing [the contact lenses] could accurately detect near-infrared temporal information like Morse code and discriminate near-infrared pattern images.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Interestingly, humans with [the contact lenses] exhibited better discrimination of near-infrared light compared with visible light when their eyes were closed.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-05-23 11:07:21 Scientists have developed contact lenses that enable people to see in the dark. Researchers from the University of Science and Technology in Hefei, China, have created the unique&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2658,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions\/2658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}