Physicists have finally turned a long standing thought experiment into a laboratory reality, showing that electromagnetic ...

Lightweight and low cost: researchers have developed a new way to make telescope mirrors that could enable much larger, and thus more sensitive, telescopes to be placed in orbit. (Courtesy: Sebastian ...

Cosmologists are increasingly entertaining a radical possibility: that the cosmos might fold back on itself so that, on the ...

In physics many subtle phenomena can be studied by allowing waves to interfere with each other. In an interferometer, light waves travel by two different paths, directed from place to place by ...

Quantum mechanics usually applies to very small objects: atoms, electrons and the like. But physicists have now brought the equivalent of a 10-kilogram object to the edge of the quantum realm.

Physics is mostly divided into two areas – classical physics describes how large objects and systems work on a scale that we see every day, while quantum physics describes the “spooky” subatomic world ...

What you think is a perfect reflection might be universe that is fundamentally different. When you look in mirror, and see what you think is a perfect reflection. You might be looking at universe ...

Optical Surfaces Ltd. has collaborated with the Institute of Plasma Physics & Lasers at the Hellenic Mediterranean University (Rethymno, Crete, Greece) to develop high quality customised optics, ...

The mirror-like physics of the superconductor-insulator transition operates exactly as expected. Scientists know this to be true following the observation of a remarkable phenomenon, the existence of ...

A large metallic mirror previously used as a prototype for a cosmic-ray observatory will be reused by physicists in Germany to hunt for “hidden photons”. These exotic and hitherto unseen cousins of ...

I love brain teasers, especially when they’re based on real-world things we see every day but maybe don’t really think about. I first heard of this one not too long ago: Why do mirrors reverse left ...

Two separate teams of scientists have built the thinnest mirrors in the world: sheets of molybdenum diselenide (MoSe2), each just a single atom wide. The mirrors were developed at the same time at ...