Mike Every knows about grinding glass—and he doesn’t like it. The second-year physics major from Saugerties, N.Y., is an amateur telescope maker with an idea for producing lightweight mirrors out of ...

This incredible story of DIY skill comes to us from SonyAlphaRumors, where a reader accidentally damaged his Sony A55‘s pellicle mirror by using Eclipse cleaning fluid. While waiting for a replacement ...

An Australian researcher has invented plastic auto side mirrors and they're being exported to the U.S. Colin Hall, a senior research fellow at the Future Industries Institute at the University of ...

A focused beam of green light has transformed 150 plastic beads into a functional mirror. The feat is the first step toward an ambitious goal: deploying lasers in space to assemble a cloud of dustlike ...

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From its origins to its everyday impacts, the lifecycle of plastic mirrors the logic and values of colonization, including the priority of profit. One of my favorite things to do is go shell hunting ...