A team of Australian scientists is using plastic mirrors in solar thermal systems. These are lighter and cheaper than mirrors made of glass, say the researchers. The mirror consists of an ...

This incredible story of DIY skill comes to us from SonyAlphaRumors, where a reader accidentally damaged his Sony A55‘s pellicle mirror by using Eclipse cleaning fluid. While waiting for a replacement ...

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 ...