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

Physicists have experimentally reversed electromagnetic waves in time, confirming a theoretical prediction that has stood for decades. The process, known as time reflection, causes a wave to retrace ...

Better layers: Anton Zubayer shows off a multilayer neutron mirror. (Courtesy: Olov Planthaber/Linköping University) A new approach for fabricating multilayer neutron mirrors has been developed by ...

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 ...

A Drexel University mathematics professor, Dr. R. Andrew Hicks (the R is probably a constant for a radius or something) has developed a new patented design of automotive side rear-view mirror with a ...

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 ...

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.

Based on the laws of physics, symmetry is a fundamental feature of the cosmos. And yet, when we observe the universe, we see phenomena that defy symmetry – their mechanisms beyond our current models ...

A team of physicists experimentally produces quantum-superpositions, simply using a mirror. Standing in front of a mirror, we can easily tell apart ourselves from our mirror image. The mirror does not ...

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 ...

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 ...