Unless you're a physicist, you probably don't pay too much mind to the function of light in your daily life. Light is light, right? When there is light, we see, and when there isn't, we don't. But ...

As graphics cards become more advanced, they become better able to render more detailed, realistic graphics. Even if the games you're playing on your PC aren't realistic by design, better graphics is ...

When Wilhelm Röntgen found X-rays in the late 1800s, the world was given a new way of seeing inside the human body and peering into hidden structures. That black-and-white imaging method still powers ...