What makes something red, or blue, or green? It’s all in the way light bounces off its surface. Something that…
On Monday, a team of scientists in Australia announced an exciting breakthrough: For the first time, researchers were…
It turns out the recognizable half-circle arch of a rainbow is a complete lie. When you’re standing on the ground…
German scientists have constructed a powerful new light system that can focus energy equivalent to the radiation of…
When it comes to cooling things in the lab, scientists have long found an experimental lower limit just above the…
It’s obvious to anyone with eyeballs that there ain’t no damn stars in the city, while there are about a gazillion and…
Water can do some trippy things, man. If you take a glass of water and slide it in front of a pattern, the refraction…
I don’t know what 1,000 suns actually looks like in real life, but I would imagine it’s probably something like…
I don’t know how these tiny dancers got trapped inside this spinning zoetrope but it’s the only explanation I can come…
These beetles may look like two different species, but they’re the same individual. The difference lies in how they…
Every year, the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney, Australia, hosts an event called Vivid Sydney: A festival of light,…
Not all light is made equal. Now, a team of physicists has discovered that photons can travel differently to any other…
There’s no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow but there are some colorful visuals you can trip out on if you can…
A team of researchers has managed to boost the amount of light an LED emits by 60 percent simply by shaping its outer…
They don’t look much, but these little black balls harness the power of bright light to zip across the surface of…
Rain means clouds and clouds mean less sunlight. That’s bad news for most solar cells, but a new design can actually…
Turning off a light just became a much smaller task. A team of researchers has developed the world’s smallest optical…
The good minds at MIT have used a rubber-like polymer to predict how much light gets transmitted through a material,…
New York is one of my favorite places in the world because of so many things but in certain moments (especially during…
Energy-saving bulbs may have some competition in the shape of an ageing technology. Scientists have developed a new…
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