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Click Here to subscribe to the CoolStuff Newsletter and get notified when our next blog is released. You may not be aware of it, but polarized light is all around you. Do you have an LCD flat screen television, a...

The sky offers a wide variety of stunning optical effects. A source of inspiration for poets and songwriters alike, these atmospheric phenomena include red sunsets, rainbows, mirages, halos, glories, and coronas. These effects are the result of the interaction of...

Click Here to subscribe to the CoolStuff Newsletter and get notified when our next blog is released. Science is too interesting to keep it cloistered in the classroom! For almost 30 years, we have been sharing the wonders of nature...

Click Here to subscribe to the CoolStuff Newsletter and get notified when our next blog is released. Each October the physics teachers at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois treat their students and the public to a haunted science...

Click Here to subscribe to the CoolStuff Newsletter and get notified when our next blog is released. As we enter the 21st century, perhaps no area of science touches our lives and the lives of our students more directly than...