Scientists have unveiled a groundbreaking material capable of bending light in such a way that it renders objects invisible. This technological marvel draws upon advanced concepts in metamaterials, ...

Did you know that gravity bends light? In 1916, Albert Einstein published his general theory of relativity. And British astronomer Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington proved the truth of Einstein’s work with ...

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The bright light at the centre of this image is galaxy cluster Abell S1063, which lies 4.5 billion light years from Earth. Photographed by the James Webb Space Telescope, this cluster is so massive ...

When you shine a flashlight into a glass of water, the beam bends. That simple observation, familiar since ancient times, hides one of the oldest puzzles in physics: what really happens to the ...

Scientists have demonstrated that negative refraction can be achieved using atomic arrays -- without the need for artificially manufactured metamaterials. Scientists have long sought to control light ...

If you studied advanced physics at high school, there's a good chance that you remember Snell's law, which states how a ray of light bends when it crosses a boundary between two media. According to ...