Well, OK, not exactly. A beam of light could pass through air all day long (as long as you have a layer of air 26 billion kilometers long) and not deviate a whit. But if the density of that air ...

GRAND RAPIDS — Every day we see and use light for numerous daily functions, but did you know you can actually bend light? Its called refraction and our experiment today is going to show you how its ...

You won’t believe your eyes with this week’s experiment! It is all about light! Light can behave in different ways; it can reflect, refract, or be absorbed. In this experiment, you can teach your kids ...

Guy Bartal, from the light refraction lab at Berkeley, talks with Scott Simon about the research they're doing on "invisible cloaks." Bartal overseas research in this lab, and is a co-author of two ...

Welcome back to Science Sundays. This week we're making a little magic happen by bending light. Allison Bogart is a teacher of the year and works at Wonderful Prep College Academy in Delano. She ...

In a mind-bending, and light-bending, discovery, scientists have produced a fun-house-like warping of light that defies existing laws of physics. For centuries, simple equations (taught every year to ...

Negative refraction achieved at visible wavelengths. Can visible light ever be manipulated so that it bends the wrong way? If it could, a range of futuristic devices would be tantalizingly close to ...

When light passes through a material, the spatial arrangement of the material’s atoms can cause the light to undergo ...