Everyone’s heard that mirrors make a room look bigger, and in most cases, that’s true. But in a small entryway, where every ...

Ever wonder how a mirror works? If you want to find the path that light takes when reflecting off a surface, you could use Fermat's Principle. This states something like this: The path that light ...

Mirrors such as those found in a bathroom tend to be made from a sheet of transparent glass or plastic and a layer of smooth, polished aluminium (or in older mirrors, silver). The reason why light ...

Amid the thousands of treasures in the Cincinnati Art Museum’s East Asian art collection, a small bronze mirror dating back to the 15th or 16th century always seemed rather unremarkable. Last ...