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3D printing a diffraction pattern

How a 3D-printed design can create a diffraction pattern in a simple science experiment about optics. 'He's in my car?': Dad whose baby was found 'hot to the touch' inside Escalade insisted child was ...
IFLScience

Century-Old Challenge Of “Atomic Diffraction” Finally Solved Thanks To Graphene

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...
Astronomy

Ask Astro: What causes the pattern of diffraction spikes in astronomical images?

I learned in October 2022’s Breakthrough that the spikes of stars in high-power photos are called diffraction spikes. Why do they appear as two crosses at 45 degrees to each other? The diffraction ...
Quanta Magazine

A Chemist Shines Light on a Surprising Prime Number Pattern

About a year ago, the theoretical chemist Salvatore Torquato met with the number theorist Matthew de Courcy-Ireland to explain that he had done something highly unorthodox with prime numbers, those ...
The Conversation

Explainer: what is X‑ray crystallography?

Crystallography: from a handheld experiment in 1912 to the size of many football fields today. Diamond Light Source Around 100 years ago a father and his son in north England conducted an experiment ...