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, ...

Prisms are commonly used in spectroscopy for dispersing or controlling the direction or polarisation of light. This can be helpful for splitting the incoming light into its wavelength components to ...

Life in the scorching hot Sahara Desert is no problem for an ant that has evolved an effective and stylish heat-repellent system, new research finds. Hairs on Saharan silver ant act like prism to ...