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  Light from smartphone screens, tablets, and computers has widely been thought to be disruptive to our natural   circadian rhythms . As a result, an industry has sprung up around   “sleep hygiene.” But a  new study Trusted Source  released last month in the journal Nature suggests that so-called blue light — the type of light emitted from these devices — may not be as disruptive as previously understood. The study from the University of Basel and the Technical University of Munich, studied “effects of  calibrated  blue–yellow changes in light on the human  circadian clock .” Researchers exposed 16 subjects to three different types of light for an hour before they went to sleep for the night. After using blue-dim, yellow, and constant white background/control light, the study authors determined that there was “no conclusive evidence for an effect of calibrated silent-substitution changes in light colour along the blue–yellow axis on the human circ...

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