Achromatic metasurface waveguide technology is revolutionizing augmented reality (AR) displays by addressing the longstanding issue of chromatic aberration. Developed by a research team from China, ...

As the world contemplates the fifth anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, I am reminded that we’re not the only generation to ...

When the moon casts its glow upon the night sky, it often captivates viewers with its serene beauty. However, on one ...

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Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies to reveal the secrets of the dark universe.

This monocular telescope is super light, weighing just under 14 ounces ... thanks to its BAK4 prism glass and fully coated optics. It gets so close you can see someone’s face from 1,000 meters ...

The striking rainbow effect is caused by particles in Earth's atmosphere refracting, or splitting apart, different wavelengths of light like a prism, according to Spaceweather.com. "When Venus is ...

Angela Speck, a professor of astrophysics and department chair for physics and astronomy at ... "You've got this light. It hits the prism and out the other side, comes the rainbow.

Mathematicians have finally succeeded in unifying the laws of physics that govern the motions of particles at different scales. Their efforts resolve a question set by mathematician David Hilbert ...

In that one year, Albert Einstein published four papers that laid the foundations of modern physics. One of the major breakthroughs proposed by Einstein in 1905 was the quantum theory of light ...