Exploiting a novel technique called phase discontinuity, researchers have induced light rays to behave in a way that defies the centuries-old laws of reflection and refraction. The discovery has led ...

The Scott Family Amazeum continues to expand its hands-on learning experiences with the introduction of Lightscape, a new ...

Students use mirror equations to determine the position and type. Students use mirror equations to determine the position, type, and size of mirror images for curved mirrors mathematically. Optical ...

It’s all to do with the raindrops, says one reader, with them needing to be relatively uniform in size and well separated for ...

Materials scientists can learn a lot about a sample material by shooting lasers at it. With nonlinear optical microscopy—a ...

In my previous Photography Snapshot, I discussed the importance of light and how it bounces to create images. We discovered that the most primitive form of photography was the camera obscura, which ...

The new design ' Liquid Glass ' was announced at the keynote speech of the annual developer conference ' WWDC25 ' held by Apple from 2:00 on June 10, 2025. Liquid Glass will be used in all Apple ...

A ripple tank can be used to investigate the frequency close frequencyThe number of waves produced each second. The unit of frequency is hertz (Hz)., wavelength close wavelengthThe length of a single ...