“When we discovered how to make electric light, we dramatically changed the human condition and our productivity,” says Fred Maxik, a physicist and founder of Lighting Science Group. “We didn’t understand for the next 125 years was that this wonderful invention brought negative biological consequences.” Maxik’s Rhode Island-based firm, established in the year 2000, produces what he calls “biological” light bulbs that are designed to help your body maintain its 24-hour “body clock,” otherwise known as the circadian rhythm. It was around this time that scientists discovered non-visual photo-receptors in the eye that react to different wavelengths of light to trigger changes in the body, rather than just supporting sight. “There is a growing body of evidence to suggest that the brightness and wavelength of workplace lighting are not only essential for enabling sight, but that it can also have strong non-visual biological effects, in regulating the human circadian system, and impacting the biological clock […]