How sound and light act alike—and not—at the smallest scale

A world-famous light experiment from 1801 has now been carried out with sound for the first time. Research by physicists in ...

High-precision analysis of 2D materials microstructures achieved using electron microscopy and machine learning

A research team led by NIMS has, for the first time, produced nanoscale images of two key features in an ultra-thin material: ...

Fogbows formed across the Brazos Valley Thursday morning

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - In the midst of a foggy Thursday morning, an arc of white stretched above the horizon, catching the eye ...
New Scientist

Why do rainbows refract light into several colours but clouds don’t?

The formation of a rainbow requires the observer to be between the sun and falling rain, with the rain in front and the sun behind. Sunlight passes from behind the observer, refracts as it enters each ...
AZoOptics

Diffraction and Dispersion: How Light is Separated into Spectra

Optical dispersion occurs when the refractive index of a material changes with the wavelength of incoming light. This variation causes different colors to move at different speeds in transparent media ...
Business Wire

Rigaku Announces XSPA-200 ER Detector for X-ray Diffraction System

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rigaku Corporation (headquarters: Akishima City, Tokyo; president and CEO: Jun Kawakami; hereinafter “Rigaku”), a Rigaku Holdings Group company and global solution partner in X ...
IEEE

Investigation of Ocean Surface Wave Refraction Using TerraSAR-X Data

Abstract: As a scientific and technological continuation of the X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (X-SAR) and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) missions, the new X-SAR, namely, TerraSAR-X (TSX), ...
RF Globalnet

On-Demand: Understanding VHF Propagation

VHF is widely used in broadcasting, voice and data communications, avionics, and even some types of radar, but there is a widely held misconception that most VHF propagation is simply “line of sight.” ...