Understanding diffraction and dispersion is key to optical science, influencing technologies like spectroscopy, fiber optics, ...

The Discovery Center Museum is offering an engaging experiment to help children understand the science of light refraction and color mixing using simple materials such as a box, water bottles ...

The concept of light has fascinated scientists for centuries. A recent MIT experiment has reignited the debate about its dual nature. The MIT team revisited a classic experiment with unprecedented ...

Twenty-odd years before Newton stated the three laws of motion, he conducted a simple, breakthrough prism experiment. He poked a hole through his window shade, allowing a single beam of light to shine ...

Nanoplasmonics -- the study of light manipulation on the nanometer scale -- has contributed to the production of novel devices for chemical and biological sensing, signal processing and solar energy.

More than 350 years ago, a young Isaac Newton fundamentally altered our understanding of visible light when he put a glass prism to a beam of sunlight and saw an array of colors he already knew to ...