Snell’s Law explains light refraction at material boundaries, a principle crucial to fiber optics, lens design, and advanced ...

Rainbows may be a trick of the eye, but they’re also based in fascinating optical physics. Here's how they work and why we see them.

You don't technically *need* Thin Mint seasoning, a dino nugget-shaped pillow, and a cowboy hat straw topper for your water ...

When I was less than 10 years old, I received a science kit as a Christmas gift. It contained all kinds of interesting items.

The J457 can determine when the prism is improperly cleaned, insufficient sample is loaded, or if the instrument is improperly calibrated. Various configurations are available for a small ...

Drummer Adam Czerwiński and journalist/ radio host/entrepreneur Wojciech Padjas have put together a variety of approaches to treat eleven popular works by Bach as "standards" and then look at them ...

Apple TV+ Using special effects to de-age actors is a risky proposition, but for Billy Crystal and Judith Light in their new series Before, the effort was worth it. The Apple TV+ supernatural ...

Last year Refracted Theatre Company blew me away with their production ... including Abboye Lawrence who provides fantastic projection design that uses light to create futuristic backgrounds that ...

In Total Reflective Abstraction (2003–04), the mirrored works themselves refract the artist’s self-reflexive examination. Looking at a reflective object becomes a metaphor for the act of reflecting on ...

Light therapy lamps have been found to be an effective treatment for seasonal affective disorder (SAD). Seasonal affective disorder can bring on symptoms like depression, hopelessness, and fatigue, so ...

Mike Lee receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Hermon Slade Foundation Welcome to our ‘Light and health’ series, where we look at how light affects our physical and ...

Reflectors are vital for road safety, especially on poorly lit roads or in adverse weather. Using retroreflection, they return vehicle headlight beams to drivers, improving visibility of road ...