When viewing paintings, people usually focus on what they can see. But often, the stories behind the painting — from how it was made to how it got to a museum — are just as interesting. “On the Same ...

Michael Murdoch is a member and former board member of the Inter-Society Color Council, part of the Color Literacy Project. People love the rainbow of ROYGBIV colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, ...

a) Illustration of the omnidirectional wavelength-tunable color device featuring a mechanochromic chiral liquid crystal elastomer (CLCE) and an electrically deformable dielectric elastomer actuator ...

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Physicists have developed a lens with 'magic' properties. Ultra-thin, it can transform infrared light into visible light by halving the wavelength of incident light. Lenses are the most widely used ...

New images of Jupiter's volcano-studded moon Io, taken by the Large Binocular Telescope on Mount Graham in Arizona, offer the highest resolution of Io ever achieved with an Earth-based instrument. The ...