Tag: Refraction

  • Nation & World

    Visual synesthesia

    The words “Folding, Refraction, Touch” provided a useful framework for the Busch-Reisinger Museum’s exhibition of works by Wolfgang Tillmans and other modern and contemporary artists in dialogue with the German photographer.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Perfecting optics

    Applied physicists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have created an ultrathin, flat lens that focuses light without imparting the distortions of conventional lenses.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    From a flat mirror, designer light

    Using a new technique, researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have induced light rays to behave in a way that defies the centuries-old laws of reflection and refraction.

    4 minutes