Rainbows, often seen after rain, aren't random occurrences but the result of specific natural conditions. Sunlight interacts ...

Have you ever gazed up at the night sky and caught your breath at the sight of a glowing ring encircling the moon? It feels .

Here's your look at Refraction in this teaser trailer for the upcoming third-person psychological horror adventure game from developer Parabola Games. In Refraction, you awaken in a strange room ...

Scientists have demonstrated that negative refraction can be achieved using atomic arrays -- without the need for artificially manufactured metamaterials. Scientists have long sought to control ...

The rainbow showed up because of something called prism refraction. The window I was sitting near had a beveled or slanted edge which caused the rainbow. I was thinking about how cool light refraction ...

Reflection and refraction . Shoko Shimabukuro / Getty Images Strictly defined, a rainbow is a band of colors formed by the reflection and refraction of the sun’s rays inside raindrops.

In this extract from the new book Beautiful Experiments: An Illustrated History of Experimental Science, science writer Philip Ball explains how Isaac Newton transformed our understanding of light.