Antennas receive and transmit electromagnetic waves, delivering information to our radios, televisions, cellphones and more.

It’s not a perfect build, but the concept is intriguing: using polarized light and stress-induced birefringence to generate colors without resorting to RGB LEDs. The clock uses white LEDs to ...

The polariscope takes its name from the fact that it uses polarized light to view the internal structure of a transparent object such as glass. When the polarized light passes through glass in a ...

Two heads are better than one, as the saying goes, and sometimes two instruments, ingeniously recombined, can accomplish ...

A hybrid microscope, born at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), for the first time allows scientists to simultaneously ...