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Amazing NEW Periodic Table Song & Video!
If the Animaniacs and Science had a child, this would be it! Every element of the Periodic Table, sung, in order!
An illustration shows the design of Rice University researchers’ antenna-on-a-chip for spatial light modulation. The chip is able to process incident infrared light for signal processing at very high speeds.
Credit: Xu Group/Rice University
Source: Antenna-on-a-chip rips the light fantastic (Rice University News & Media)
The photo above showing meltwater on ice, imaged using a circular polarizer lens, was taken on a pond near Rimavska Sobota, Slovakia. The refractive index of ice crystals depends upon the polarization and propagation direction of a beam of light. This property is known as birefringence (sometimes called double refraction). The colored light seen when looking through the sides of an airplane window is an example of birefringence. When a beam of light propagates through ice crystals, two distinct rays result, depending upon the direction of propagation. A polarizer filter or lens acts to recombine the rays. However, due to the fact that these rays were out of phase when recombined, the new polarized rays are composed of various wavelengths of visible light, which as shown here result in especially vibrant colors. Note that colors in pond ice may also be due to interference in narrow fissures and from refraction by trapped air bubbles. Photo taken on November 15, 2012.
Photographer: Daniela Rapava
Summary Authors: Daniela Rapava; Jim Foster
Source: Colors in Pond Ice Using a Polarizer Lens (Earth Science Picture of the Day)
Super Kamiokande (from the upper of the tank).
©redit & Source: Kamioka Observatory, ICRR(Institute for Cosmic Ray Research), The University of Tokyo. 3281 feet under.
Two-dimensional visualization of the Alcubierre drive, showing the opposing regions of expanding and contracting spacetime that displace the central region.
By AllenMcC. (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC-BY-SA-2.0-de], via Wikimedia Commons