Learning from the attempted rescue of the Lunar Trailblazer: how ground-based optical observations and laboratory ...

A simple water drop can act like a lens, bending light through refraction in a clear optics demonstration.

AUSTIN, Texas — Austin’s multibillion-dollar light rail system is advancing toward construction, and some local businesses along the proposed route are preparing for relocation. Among them is the 1972 ...

SEATTLE — Sound Transit’s governing board approved a sweeping overhaul of its voter-approved ST3 expansion plan Thursday, acknowledging a projected $34.5 billion funding gap that agency leaders say ...

TACOMA, Wash. — From elected leaders to everyday residents, people in Tacoma say they are grateful that Sound Transit's revised long-range plan includes full funding for two key projects that would ...

A rainbow reveals with colors what otherwise remains hidden: light is "refracted" by transparent matter, in this case water droplets. This same physical effect underlies many everyday technologies, ...

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn said he opposes federal funding for Austin’s planned $7 billion light-rail system, whose fate relies heavily on such support. Cornyn, a Texas Republican facing Attorney General ...

Researchers have created a nanoscale structure that traps infrared light in a layer just 40 nanometers thick—over 1,000 times thinner than a human hair. By using a unique material with exceptional ...

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Based on hard science fiction, a genre that prioritizes scientific accuracy, the blockbuster gets a lot right but misses a few things, experts say. By Alexis Soloski “The stars weren’t big enough,” ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Although people often say nothing travels faster than the speed of light, this cosmic speed limit only pertains to particles with information or mass ...

Albert Einstein famously discovered that nothing with mass, not even supersonic sound, is faster than the speed of light. For over a century we have operated with this belief. But, in reality, we’ve ...