Yellow Food Dye Makes for Transparent Skin
Mice got transparent skin from exposure to yellow food dye, opening up more questions in physics and medicine.
Tag: optics
Optical Illusions: Afterimage science + ghosts
Have you ever seen a ghost? How about an after-image? Our bodies aren’t perfect and they sometimes make mistakes, resulting in fun optical illusions.
Sunsets are Illusions
What are sunsets? To human eyes, they are very cool optical illusions. Learn about light scattering, and how to photograph sunsets.
Brain-like Computers from Optical Fibers
Researchers say to get ready for brain-like computers that can learn and adapt. Computers that function like a human brain could be reality.
First Photo of Light as Wave and Particle
In 1905, Albert Einstein proposed that light has properties of both a wave and a stream of particles. Now, researchers…