It is important to point out that we are not so much interested in dispersive prisms that split a beam of white light into its spectrum of colors, although they make great album covers.

White light is made of a spectrum of different colours. Light can be split up into these separate colours using a prism. There are three primary colours of light, which can be combined to make ...

But blue feathers result from refraction, a prism-style splitting of light inside a feather. Under a microscope each long kingfisher barb, finer than a human hair, glitters with shades of the ...

The binocular head consists of the two eyepieces and a pair of prisms that create the binocular split. The alignment ... then check out “AZIZ! Light!”, a microscope ring light with a number ...

NASA's Langley Research Center has finally presented a plan to learn about the Moon and Mars, by shooting them with specially ...

Two researchers at the University of Warsaw developed a quantum-inspired super-resolving spectrometer for short pulses of ...

Thanks to its stacked sensor technology, splitting the photo diodes ... which—much like a periscope—uses prisms to fold the path of the light to create a longer lens than the depth offered ...

The artist’s kaleidoscopic paintings resonate intriguingly with her wider preoccupation with the boundaries of identity ...

These were once the workhorse workbenches of autonomous alchemists, from Archimedes' bathtub eureka to Newton's light-splitting prisms, from Curie's radium-rich shed to Feynman's cryogenic ...

An interview with A.B. Stoddard, columnist at The Bulwark, who explains how Donald Trump's worsening rants and threats gives ...