This activity is part of the Science Friday Sun Camp collection! For 4.5 billion years, the Sun has generated energy to power the solar system. Visible light is the most obvious form of that energy.

After sifting through possible names for this blog, I settled on Light and Shadow—not Light and Darkness, not Black and White. My first entry, “Surprised by the Light: Lessons from a Junkyard,” ...

In board gaming, it's rare to see something you haven't seen before. The last time that happened to me was in the unclassifiable and amazing Millennium Blades. It's happened again with Shadows in the ...

Bruce Handy, Lisk Feng and Cat Min present shadows for what they are: the non-nefarious interplay of light and dark. By Leigh Ann Henion Leigh Ann Henion is the author of “Phenomenal: A Hesitant ...

Light is part of various disciplines, shaping the world as we know it. In physics, it serves as a measure of speed and makes vision, and the recording of images by the eye and camera lens possible.