Prism
A prism is a clear solid used to manipulate the path of a light ray, either by bending it, splitting it, or polarizing it. Generally, the light ray is reflected one or more times within the body...
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Reflection, Refraction, and Dispersion
When light travels from one medium to another, three phenomena can occur; reflection, refraction, and dispersion. Reflection takes place when the light does not ...
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Hamburg (dpa) - Two German physicists from the University of
Koblenz claim to have done the impossible and broken the speed of
light.
If their claims are conf...
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The KaVo DIAGNOdent pen utilizes differing fluorescence between healthy and unhealthy tooth substances, making it able to accurately detect early stage caries in the approximal, fissure and surface...
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With television news losing audience, newspapers struggling to stay afloat and growth even slowing on Internet sites, it seems like a desolate time for the news industry.Yet there are signs of hope...
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Addressing the annual dinner of the Japan Society at the Hilton Hotel, Mark Warner delivered a speech that borrowed much of its lexicon and its worldview from Sen. Clinton's husband, emphatically u...
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Researchers at Arizona State University and the University of Pittsburgh have mixed technology, art and science to re-create the real face of George Washington. Using anthropology, 3-D scanning and...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
REREADING THE TERROR REPORT (Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles)
A NATURAL TEMPTATION - to which some commentators already have
succumbed - i...
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Alceste, the aptly named title character in "The Misanthrope," is a man possessed.So is Belgian avant-garde director Ivo van Hove _ but in a good way. Van Hove has burnished an iconoclastic reputat...
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LONDON, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Britain will push to curb energy
and financial investment in Iran unless Tehran addresses nuclear
concerns, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Monday in a speech
that a...
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Prism
Reflection, Refraction, and Dispersion
German experts do "impossible" by breaking the speed of light
