The 120 acres is overseen by the Bureau of Land Management. The actual lighthouse, which was first lit in 1860, remains ...

If you are a Hackaday reader, you probably know what a Fresnel lens is. You find them in everything from overhead projectors to VR headsets. While it seems commonplace now, the Fresnel lens was an ...

A 71,000-acre slice of the NorCal coastline is home to numerous iconic photo ops, including the historic Point Reyes ...

His latest work, My Fingernails Are Fresnel Lenses, is a thoughtful poem about the make-up of memories and how they work through our system. “Most of my work comes from a scientific point of view.

For centuries, telescopes have relied on curved lenses and mirrors to observe the Universe. A team of researchers has recently developed a flat, lightweight lens capable of capturing precise ...

Fresnel lenses are all around us, but this vase puts the commonplace technology to work in an entirely new way. Borrowed From Old Lighthouses, A Method For Super-Powerful Solar Power With the help ...