"Objects in mirror are closer than they appear." That's because these aren't the flat mirrors you might have in your house. They are convex mirrors. But why do cars use convex mirrors? To ...

The reason behind the warning is a simple matter of physics—and the placement of the passenger-side mirror in relation to the driver’s eye. When light bounces off of a flat surface ...

Subtly curved, it strikes a balance between the standard flat mirror—which, if not perfectly adjusted, leaves you with a dangerous blind spot—and the grossly rounded wide-angle mirrors you see ...

"Using designer surfaces, we've created the effects of a fun-house mirror on a flat plane," says co-principal investigator Federico Capasso, Robert L. Wallace Professor of Applied Physics and Vinton ...

"Using designer surfaces, we've created the effects of a fun-house mirror on a flat plane," says co-principal investigator Federico Capasso, Robert L. Wallace Professor of Applied Physics and ...

Optical Surfaces Ltd. reports how its high precision reference flat mirrors are enabling testing and precise alignment of Earth observation satellite telescopes. Today, satellite images play a major ...

Two U.K.-based researchers -- Francis O'Neill, an artist and art teacher; and Sofia Palazzo Corner, an independent physicist -- have identified several arrangements of a flat and curved mirror ...

Rembrandt may have traced his celebrated self-portraits from optical projections created by assemblies of mirrors or lenses, a new analysis suggests. Two U.K.-based researchers — Francis O'Neill ...