Mike Every knows about grinding glass—and he doesn’t like it. The second-year physics major from Saugerties, N.Y., is an amateur telescope maker with an idea for producing lightweight mirrors out of ...

Take a good hard look in the mirror. Don’t like what you see? Not to worry. That face isn’t the future you’re looking at; it’s your past. Today more than ever, plastic surgery is socially acceptable, ...

A new way of bending X-rays raises the prospect of smaller, more powerful X-ray space telescopes. Based on technology originally developed for medical imaging machines, Stacked Prism Lens are being ...