Science presenter Jon Chase explains total internal reflection. He demonstrates how total internal reflection can make a coin disappear inside a glass of water and bend a laser beam. The second ...

In TIRF microscopy, fluorescent molecules are in a sample in an aqueous environment that is near a solid with a high refractive index, usually a glass coverslip. At what is called the critical angle, ...

Refraction close refractionProcess by which a wave changes speed and sometimes direction upon entering a denser or less dense medium, eg a light ray changes direction when refracted by a lens. from a ...

The body hairs of the Saharan silver ant cause total internal reflection of light to make the ants almost ten times more reflective, preventing overheating and yielding their silver sheen, according ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 104, No. 10 (Mar. 6, 2007), pp. 4212-4217 (6 pages) Transmitters such as glutamate and ATP are released from brain ...