A company called Reflect Orbital wants to illuminate the Earth after sunset with orbital sky mirrors, raising alarm bells.

Researchers demonstrate a new technique for suppressing back reflections of light, leading to better signal quality for sensing and information technology. Microresonators are small glass structures ...

Reflection-contrast microscopy is a type of light microscopy that can be used to analyze single cells, biopsies, and other small objects. In contrary to most light microscopy techniques, ...

Light is often thought to reflect from a flat surface at the same angle at which it is incident. Nature Photonics spoke to Han Woerdman about the observation of angular deviations of reflected beams.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." For more than 50 years, scientists theorized that an electromagnetic wave could be reflected ...