When people look into a mirror, they see an image of themselves behind the glass. That image results from light rays encountering the shiny surface and bouncing back, or reflecting, providing a ...

Well, OK, not exactly. A beam of light could pass through air all day long (as long as you have a layer of air 26 billion kilometers long) and not deviate a whit. But if the density of that air ...

When a wave or light ray moves from one medium to another its speed changes. The direction of the ray may also change. This property of waves is called refraction and commonly occurs with light rays.

At least three separate optical phenomena are visible in the new images. Each of which is created by light refracting through millions of perfectly aligned ice crystals in the upper atmosphere. When ...

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Photographer Andrew Fusek Peters first captured a blue tit in his Shropshire garden An "extraordinary mistake" led to a wildlife photographer being able to capture rare pictures of British birds ...

Photographs of dragonflies using a technique which has taken a decade to perfect have been shortlisted in the finals of a prestigious award. Rare images of light refracting through the wings of birds ...