In a surprising twist, the controversial scene from A Simple Favor wasn’t in the original screenplay. During the film’s Blu-Ray commentary, Blake Lively admitted to improvising the crotch grab. In the ...

What if you’ve already seen fragments of the future - without realizing it? In this thought experiment grounded in Einstein’s relativity, we unpack how a simple diagram changes our entire ...

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[Birdbrain] is trying to make their own microfluidic devices. To aid in this quest, they need a quality microscope to see what they’re doing. Instead of buying one outright, they purchased a cheap ...

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A microscope is an essential instrument for scientific research, allowing us to observe things that are too small for the naked eye. Making your own microscope can be both educational and enjoyable.

Abstract: We developed a photonic band diagram microscope using hyperspectral Fourier image spectroscopy to investigate optical properties of topological photonic crystals. The band inversion near the ...