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Scientists Create First Flat Telescope Lens That Doesn’t Distort Colors
The first telescopes refracted light, and today reflectors dominate, but there is a third way to make light focus, and it ...
Einstein's light quanta through the lens of Maxwell's equations
Light was long considered to be a wave, exhibiting the phenomenon of interference in which ripples like those in water waves ...
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Myopia: its historical contexts
In 1864, a lucid concept of myopia and other ametropias arose through a clear separation between accommodation and refraction. Posterior staphyloma was known around 1800 and its association with ...
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Refractive adaptation in amblyopia: quantification of effect and implications for practice
Correspondence to: Dr Catherine Stewart Department of Visual Neuroscience, Imperial College London, Charing Cross Campus, Margravine Road, London W6 8RP, UK; c.stewartimperial.ac.uk Aim: To describe ...
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In-depth news and investigations for New Orleans
At that point in 2006, hardly anything seemed worthy of celebrating. Except everyone wanted and needed the kind of emotional release that comes with Carnival. We needed one day that brought New ...