How does color work, and how does the type of light source you use affect the colors you see? Appliance Science looks at the science of light and color. Richard Baguley Richard Baguley has been ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. Quantum physics is arguably the greatest intellectual triumph in the ...

Focused laser-like light that covers a wide range of frequencies is highly desirable for many scientific studies and for many applications, for instance, quality control of manufacturing semiconductor ...

Scientists have achieved a breakthrough in light manipulation by using topological insulators to generate both even and odd terahertz frequencies through high-order harmonic generation (HHG). By ...

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French physicist Gabriel Lippmann pioneered color photography and snagged the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physics for his efforts. But according to a recent paper published in the Proceedings of the National ...

Quantum analogue: Jeff Steinhauer and colleagues have measured the temperature of an analogue black hole. (Courtesy: Technion) Physicists in Israel have shown that radiation from an analogue black ...