The ESIS-II mission aims to capture high-speed “snapshot” images of the Sun’s transition region and corona. To achieve this, the instrument utilizes a slitless spectrograph design that requires ...

One of the season’s leading themes was “fashion as feeling”—a fitting sentiment not only captured in the movement of the clothes (the fringe! the feathers! the frothy lace!) as designers experimented ...

The toughest job a highbrow machinist can tackle is to make a diffraction grating. The end result does not look like much: just a piece of glass coated with a film of aluminum in which thousands of ...

Peacock feathers are greatly admired for their bright iridescent colors, but it turns out they can also emit laser light when dyed multiple times, according to a paper published in the journal ...

Scientists have created the first neutron 'Airy beam,' which has unusual capabilities that ordinary neutron beams do not. The achievement could enhance neutron-based techniques for investigating the ...

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering (IOF) say that they have built a thulium fiber laser capable of emitting 1.91 kW - nearly double the typical output ...

Source: Trifonenko/istock/Used with permission If winter is for cuddling, spring is for sorting things out, and sometimes, letting go. In my 2018 post, What Is "Cuffing Season"?, I broke down the ...