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Light typically interacts with a material the same way whether it enters through the front or the back—like polarized sunglasses that work the same from either side. Cornell researchers have ...

How do you construct a simple light shield? That’s what multiple people wanted to know after reading one of my recent columns (“Everyday accessories” from February 2014) in which I mentioned you could ...

Light typically interacts with a material the same way whether it enters through the front or the back – like polarized sunglasses that work the same from either side. Cornell researchers have ...

Microscopic fibers secretly shape how every organ in the body works, yet they’ve been notoriously hard to study—until now. A new imaging technique called ComSLI reveals hidden fiber orientations in ...