The SciencesDecember 18, 2001
Scientists Use Temperature to Tune a Tiny Laser's Color
Optics
EnvironmentAugust 23, 2001
Study Suggests Brainless Brittlestars Have Sophisticated Visual System
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TechnologyMay 4, 2001
Scientists Spin Microscopic Particles with Laser Beams
The SciencesApril 9, 2001
New Material Reverses Snell's Law
The SciencesMarch 6, 2001
Atoms in 3D
TechnologyNovember 2, 2000
Business for Breakthrough Opto-chip
EnvironmentOctober 21, 1999
Why are rainbows curved? Is it because of refraction in the drops of water?
Space & PhysicsOctober 21, 1999
Why do the moon and the sun look so much larger near the horizon than they do high up in the sky? I have heard this called the "moon illusion" or the "Problem of Luna Mendex." Is it an illusion of the eye?
The SciencesJune 14, 1999
A Fiber Named Roy G. Biv
The SciencesJanuary 4, 1999
The Laser at (About) 40
HealthDecember 28, 1998
Can a pocket laser damage the eye?
EnvironmentSeptember 21, 1998
Light Twisters
Photonic crystals promise advances in communications and optical computers