Don't sweat if you find yourself on a camping trip without a firestarter. All you need are prescription or reading glasses ...

You might not need one every day but now and again, a magnifying glass can certainly come in handy, say to read the small print, check for ticks or look at a scratch in some furniture. Few people ...

A light ray bouncing off an object usually travels in a straight line to your eye. Things change when a transparent material, such as glass or water, gets in the way.

Just like a magnifying glass, lensed light can be magnified or de-magnified. If the light coming towards us from a distant source is lensed by a massive galaxy located in between, ...

Built in 1867, it houses a first-order Fresnel lens made of 1,032 glass prisms that can take the light of a single oil lamp and project it approximately 24 miles to the horizon – without the use ...

On the other end of the scale, there are ornamental magnifying glasses, designed for light use, but more often wind up as a curio to add to bookshelves and cupboards. Read More.

Magnifying lamps are useful for many reasons, such as having poor eyesight or needing to be up close for painting miniatures. Or maybe you just like them. Skip to content. WCBD News 2.

Our soldering helping hand comes with a 4.3" real glass magnifier that clearly magnifies small objects by up to 10X and our magnifying light also allows you to adjust the color and brightness of ...

The gravity of a galaxy two-and-a-half billion light-years away has acted like a cosmic magnifying glass to amplify the light of a distant supernova.

Colonial Heights Rehabilitation and Nursing Center's undeniably troubling past is in the spotlight once again as new information about an ongoing, recent case of elder abuse and neglect comes to ...