Newton’s experiment remains almost insultingly simple. Sunlight, a darkened room, a glass prism. The conclusion was unavoidable. Colour belonged to light itself. The prism merely made it visible.

This head-turning effect may look like it was created entirely in post-production, but it’s less complicated than that. To ...

Great question, Desiree. Let me start with a story about the scientist Isaac Newton. About 350 years ago, he was thinking a lot about light, and what it is made of. He held a prism up to the light and ...

Mozilla Labs has launched what it says is a series of experiments designed to "bridge the divide in the user experience between web applications and desktop apps." The first release is Prism the new ...

Nanoplasmonics -- the study of light manipulation on the nanometer scale -- has contributed to the production of novel devices for chemical and biological sensing, signal processing and solar energy.