The 19th century poet Gerard Manley Hopkins paid homage to the kingfisher’s brilliant plumage in his poem “As Kingfishers ...

The method involves stitching together many thin “slices” of light reflecting off an object.

In this video I test if light can be black. I show you several experiments that show you cases of light that is black and then I talk about what color actually is and why mixing pain and light give ...

A team of engineers and scientists has shown for the first time that a hard-X-ray cavity can provide net X-ray gain, with X-ray pulses being circulated between crystal mirrors and amplified in the ...

Early carbon light bulbs may have produced graphene, since applying voltage to carbon filaments mirrors what is now called flash Joule heating. Graphene is a transparent, remarkably strong substance, ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

MESSRS. LAUE, Friedrich, and Knipping's remarkable photographs taken through a crystal with X-rays have opened a new field of research. Mr. W. L. Bragg has shown that much stronger photographs are ...

What do Thomas Edison and 2010 Nobel Prize in physics winners Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim have in common? According to a recent publication from the lab of Rice University’s James Tour, it ...

We’ve featured the International Photography Awards on Bored Panda before, but coming back to this competition always feels like opening a door into a hundred different worlds at once. One minute ...

Ken Rosenthal at The Athletic dropped a surprising note that the Rays lone lefty reliever Garrett Cleavinger is evidently drawing strong trade interest this week, in sourcing likely derived from a ...

Two reports have now pushed the Scottish Government to pay reparations to Scotland’s Gypsy Travellers for the Tinker Experiment Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get ...