A new kind of mirror is emerging from quantum physics labs, one that exists not as a chunk of polished glass but as a ...

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

Controlling light is an important technological challenge—not just at the large scale of optics in microscopes and telescopes ...

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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 ...