Part of human nature, it seems, is a Narcissus-like desire to gaze at shimmering surfaces that return our reflection and ...

But sometimes reflections can be annoying. They can get in the way of what you want to make pictures of. This usually happens with windows, where light bouncing off the glass can obscure your subject.

When light travels from air into glass it slows down because glass is more (optically) dense than air. This change in speed can cause the light to bend at the boundary between the two transparent ...

If a bird feeder is close to a window that gets attacked or flown into, move the feeder to a new location farther away. If ...

One of the simplest ways to practice safe driving is to be aware of any hazards while driving, such as windshield glare and ...

Eventually, they applied their own silvering to the areas where they wanted reflections and left the rest of the glass transparent. That technique sent the Blancs in a whole new direction.

He demonstrates how total internal reflection can make a coin disappear inside a glass of water and bend a laser beam. The second demonstration is used as a model for fibre optics. Your class ...