It is widely known that LEDs are good for your wallet, as they offer great energy savings over incandescent bulbs, but did you know that LEDs may also be good for your health? The latest LED medical breakthrough involves one of the most frightening possibilities of old age: Alzheimer’s Disease.

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The Friends of the Umpqua Hiking Club has put out its summer hiking schedule for interested Oregonians who want to take part in various hikes throughout the Umpqua Valley.

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Perdue University researchers have discovered a new way to produce LED lights that could significantly reduce their manufacturing cost. Currently, LEDs are expensive to produce, partially because they are created on a base layer of sapphire. The Perdue researchers have developed an alternative base layer of less expensive metal-coated silicon wafers. The wafers are also superior to their sapphire counterparts in heat dissipation, which could translate to increased reliability and longer lasting LED bulbs. The findings of the Perdue study will appear in this month’s Applied Physics Letters, a journal published by the American Institute of Physics.

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Thanks to a recently signed $80 million contract, Honeywell International Incorporated will equip Airbus’ A320 fleet with long-lasting LED lights on the aircrafts’ wingtips. The new LED bulbs will last 40 times longer than the current halogen wing lights, translating to $30,000 in annual savings.

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Summertime, and the fish are jumpin’. Only problem is, who wants to sit in a boat when it’s hot enough to fry a trout on the car hood?

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