Father and son, Dr. Walter Placek, Wilkes University professor, and David Placek, a teacher in the Wyoming Valley West School District, conducted science experiments on light and prisms with the third ...

Although our eyes usually can't see them, visible light contains all the colors of the rainbow. This kind of light is called 'white light,' and it's the light we get from the sun, a lamp or a ...

Twenty-odd years before Newton stated the three laws of motion, he conducted a simple, breakthrough prism experiment. He poked a hole through his window shade, allowing a single beam of light to shine ...

Nanoplasmonics -- the study of light manipulation on the nanometer scale -- has contributed to the production of novel devices for chemical and biological sensing, signal processing and solar energy.

The great British scientists, who have transformed our thinking about the universe and our place within it, owe much of their success to one incredible idea: the scientific method. It’s the bedrock of ...

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, it’s fair to say the general public has rendered science plain. The accumulation of data in controlled situations isn’t, after all, loveliness embodied. But an ...