Rainbows are often seen as symbols of luck, and if you spot one, consider yourself lucky. That’s because a few things need to align, both in terms of weather and physics: a little rain, some sunshine, ...

Have you ever gone to the optometrist for an eye test and were told your eye was shaped like a football? Or perhaps you've ...

Now in its fifth year, Illuminate Adelaide’s idiosyncratic programming has built the festival into a feast of immersive ...

A rather unassuming particle is playing an important role in the hunt for subatomic oddities. Similar to protons and neutrons, mesons are composed of quarks bound together by the strong nuclear force.

In recent times, many of us have encountered the term ‘Progressive Myopia’. But what exactly is it? Progressive Myopia is a ...

The sPHENIX particle detector, the newest experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at the U.S. Department of ...

According to a study published in 2024 in the American Medical Association's Journal of Ophthalmology, 79% of children and ...

The mind-bending concept of time dilation results from a seemingly harmless assumption—that the speed of light is the same ...

Small, compact galaxies seen in the early universe have puzzled astronomers – finding these unusual objects closer to home ...

Yoshiki Niihori and Masaaki Mitsui highlighted recent advances in converting visible and near-infrared light through ...

When it comes to your home internet connection, there's one question we get asked quite a bit: Does Wi-Fi travel through ...

Astigmatism (uh-STIG-muh-tiz-um) is a type of refractive error where one or more of the eye’s surfaces are not smooth and/or ...