In modern gaming, lighting is king and there’s never been a more wondrous thing than ray tracing. Ray tracing is an old, but now widely, available technology that realistically renders light and ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, a visitor older than the Sun, has stunned scientists with a colossal, puzzling X-ray cloud ...

Go find a makeup mirror. There's a good chance you have one in the bathroom. You know the type—it has a surface that shows you a zoomed-in image of your face. If you have one nearby, you can use this ...

When light moves from air into glass or plastic it is refracted close refractionProcess by which a wave changes speed and sometimes direction upon entering a denser or less dense medium, eg a light ...

Refraction close refractionProcess by which a wave changes speed and sometimes direction upon entering a denser or less dense medium, eg a light ray changes direction when refracted by a lens. of ...

Figure 1: A diagram of the soft X-ray microscope XM-1. This technique overcomes nanofabrication limits due to electron beam broadening in high feature density patterning. Beam broadening results from ...