At one point or another, we've all tried to make shadow puppets, twisting our fingers in front of a light to throw a shadow that looks like a rabbit or a dog or whatever. A new exhibition at ...

“We find beauty not in the thing itself, but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates,” Jun'ichiro Tanizaki writes in his 1933 essay In Praise of ...

Today, I'd like to dive into the use of shadows in landscape photography. Shadows are almost always part of nature: we often shoot using a (almost-)point light source (the sun or the moon), and even ...

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.

“Scene of Souls in Hell” (19th century), donkey skin; Shaanxi, China (all images courtesy Museu do Oriente) LISBON — Asian shadow theater is catnip for those with energetic imaginations. Its ...