Researchers have uncovered a material perception mechanism with which humans discriminate between reflective and transparent materials (mirror and glass). The research team discovered that the brain ...

Scientists in Canada are reporting progress toward a new type of "liquid mirror" -- mirrors made with highly reflective liquids -- whose shape can be changed to provide superior optical properties ...

Creating a material that can alter its optical properties in real time has proved challenging for scientists, but a team at Imperial College London has finally achieved a major breakthrough by ...

Kobayashi and Phillips showed their new ALD system to Claire Max, director of UC Observatories. David Fryauf, Nobuhiko Kobayashi, Michael Bolte, Andrew Phillips, and Claire Max (l to r), with the new ...

What do you do once the world-destroying laser you have been working on becomes so powerful that it blows holes in the mirrors used to steer the laser beam? This is a question that has become very ...

All right, let’s tackle this one. To make this a little more straightforward, I’m going to assume you’re bouncing a laser beam down a hall of mirrors. In this case, your question is really how many ...