Brave New World is about to hit cinemas, bringing with it the gamma-ray-powered Red Hulk. Here's what you need to know about ...

"Why are there so many songs about rainbows?" sings Kermit the Frog in a song (about rainbows) called "Rainbow Connection" from 1979's "The Muppet Movie." And it's not just songs that feature rainbows ...

Radiation within the visible spectrum can appear black if it is low in power – more specifically, lower in power than its ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a belching protostar in its infancy. By studying the dust grains whirling around ...

Everyone has seen the iridescent rainbow patterns in an oil sheen on water.  Oil is hydrophobic, which repels water and doesn’t mix.  It spreads out across the surface of the water, and if ...

It might seem like a simple question. But the science behind a blue sky isn't that easy. For starters, it involves something called the Rayleigh effect, or Rayleigh scattering. But that same ...

The paper is published in the journal Nature. In a world-first, scientists used precisely controlled optical traps, known as "magic-wavelength optical tweezers," to create a highly stable ...

Sub-wavelength optics is the study of light on a spatial scale smaller than its wavelength. Conventionally, the minimum length scale on which a beam of light can operate is equal to half its ...

Depending on its wavelength, different types of solar radiation do different things: Infrared radiation makes us feel the warmth of the sun. Visible light allows us to see the world around us.