Photography challenges can be a fun and effective way to improve kids' observation skills. By engaging in these activities, ...

Light can be sculpted into countless shapes. Yet building optical devices that can simultaneously manipulate many different ...

It is New Year's night, and I am pensive. It has been a weird day, though a good day, till just now when I learned I hurt ...

Making Room for Families in Our Community Much of everyday life is designed for adults, but not families. School ends hours before the workday does. Childcare […] ...

Some people seem to pick up new skills the way a sponge soaks up water, while others grind through repetition with only ...

What makes Buskin River State Park particularly appealing for weekend warriors is its choose-your-own-adventure quality – you can make your visit as active or as lazy as your mood dictates. Feel like ...

Now, two unrelated-but-similar experiments confirm that, in a double-slit experiment, detection of a photon’s path (its ...

Controlling light is an important technological challenge—not just at the large scale of optics in microscopes and telescopes ...

Spencer Axani, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the inventor of CosmicWatch, a portable, ...

Memoirs by Sylvester Stallone and the founder of Barstool Sports; essays from celebrated novelists Jesmyn Ward and Jayne Anne ...

The CosmicWatch device costs only $100 to make, making it accessible for both high school students and spacecraft operators.