A magnifying glass contains a lens that’s made into a convex shape in order to better see small objects. Magnifying glasses have plenty of uses, from making it easier to read a book to examining ...

A Louisville artist is creating art through destruction using some simple tools. Artist Billy Keith uses a giant magnifying glass to burn images onto plywood, letting the sun's rays pass through the ...

At a gold refinery, the team attempts an unusual experiment: melting a $1,000,000 gold bar using nothing but sunlight and a giant magnifying glass. The huge lens concentrates the sun’s rays into an ...

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, ...

A team of astronomers used a cluster of galaxies like a magnifying glass to discover two never-before-seen distant galaxies. Pandora's Cluster warps the fabric of space-time, creating a visual effect ...