Optical Prisms are applied to redirect or refract light at a designated angle, or used to deflect, rotate, invert, disperse light or change the polarization of the incident beam. In modern life, ...

A right angle prism is an optical prism designed to deviate light by 90° or 180°, depending on the orientation of the prism and the face through which light enters. The joining edges and faces are ...

Cool operator: the Saharan silver ant Cataglyphis bombycina. (Courtesy: P Landmann) A species of desert-dwelling ant is able to tolerate temperatures exceeding 50 °C because its body hairs act like ...