NASA can see your Christmas lights… from outer space
Many are already preparing for Christmas - some shopping for presents, some Christmas lights... the usual. But as you're gearing up ...
Many are already preparing for Christmas - some shopping for presents, some Christmas lights... the usual. But as you're gearing up ...
A breakthrough in optical communications has been reported by Stanford engineers who used a complex algorithm to design a prism-like device ...
Since ancient times, people living in hot climates learned if they paint their rooftops white, then their quarters would stay ...
Austrian researchers at the Vienna Univ. of Technology (TU Wien) made just two photons interact with each other, a major feat ...
Everybody enjoys a good ol’ entertaining Rube Goldberg machine, whether it’s a fantasy Loony Tunes contraption or a real-life state ...
Einstein's theories suggest that light can not travel faster than c, a constant equal to the speed of light in ...
Using only material geometry and interference patterns, MIT researchers have devised a novel way of passing light of any colour ...
Illustration: James Archer/anatomyblue The backbone of today's modern telecommunication industry is held by fiber optic cables. ...
Imagine going to a meeting, flipping your phone on the table and then instantly project your slide presentation or traveling ...
Schematic for two different types of PC/SWNT photoactuators made by tuning the built-in strain of the ...
For many quantum mechanics is very hard to comprehend because so many of its insights are extremely bizarre (see spooky ...
This is a typical camera used for shooting 3-D images and movies. The equipment is very ...
The subtleties in these computer-generated images of translucent materials are important. Texture, color, contrast, and sharpness ...
Scientists at the University of Darmstadt, Germany have set a new record after they devised an experimental set-up that allowed ...
Butterflies are one of the most enchanting beings in the animal kingdom, a symbol of grace and beauty encountered in ...
Diamonds are for a nano-second - in the glitter of a candle light, that is. In a stroke of brilliance, ...
A team of Hong Kong scientists have ...
This time I'm just going to present you with a little site I stumbled across that allows you to take ...
Neil deGrasse is definitely one of my heroes, and the simplicity through which he manages to explain even the most ...