Giant mirrors in space have been a staple of science fiction for decades. But so far, there's been very little work looking ...

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What do we learn about physics in this experiment at ETH Zurich? The two acoustic mirrors on the Hönggerberg campus show on a large scale how experiments with tiny particles work in physics labs. The ...

Lightweight and low cost: researchers have developed a new way to make telescope mirrors that could enable much larger, and thus more sensitive, telescopes to be placed in orbit. (Courtesy: Sebastian ...

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have succeeded in an experiment where they get an artificial atom to survive ten times longer than normal by positioning the atom in front of a mirror.

Despite approaching the minimum thickness an object could possibly have and remain reflective under the laws of physics, the tiny mirrors reflected a great deal of the light shone on them. The Harvard ...

Two separate teams of scientists have built the thinnest mirrors in the world: sheets of molybdenum diselenide (MoSe2), each just a single atom wide. The mirrors were developed at the same time at ...