Headband magnifiers are convenient tools for painting miniatures, embroidery, puzzles, and more, keeping hands free and providing a closer look at fine details. To pick the best headband magnifier, ...

It’s strange to think that the light of the sun can light fires here on Earth, but with the right concentration of sunlight — it’s surprisingly easy. For those of us who burned ants with magnifying ...

Enlarge a detail in your photo by peering through a fake magnifying glass Once you take a photo with a digital camera, you can do pretty much anything you want with it. You can tweak the exposure, ...

Astronomers at the University of Chicago, MIT and elsewhere have used a massive cluster of galaxies as an X-ray magnifying glass to peer back in time, to nearly 9.4 billion years ago. In the process, ...

Researchers are studying gravitational lenses to find out what dark matter is made of. Here’s a neat physics experiment you can do at home. Hold an empty wineglass by the bowl so you can look through ...