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Despite living in an era of ultra-bright light-emitting diodes and lasers, our base unit for luminous intensity is still awkwardly tied to the brightness of a…
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That dramatic, beloved burst of light is actually just rogue waves bouncing off internal glass elements when aimed carelessly at a bright source.
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The very first endoscope, invented by Philipp Bozzini in 1806, was basically just a thin metal tube containing a literal burning candle. Doctors would…
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Human eyes are terribly biased, so we built machines to objectively judge the color of our chemicals. A colorimeter shines specific wavelengths of light…
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Before the 1850s, looking inside a living human eyeball was basically impossible without blinding the patient or cutting them open. A physicist named Hermann…
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The cosmos isn't naturally as vibrant as space agencies want you to think. They capture multiple exposures through distinct color-filtering lenses and…
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