Most people would never guess that housed on the east side of Arizona Stadium is the Richard F. Caris Mirror Laboratory. Funneling into ZonaZoo, students pass by the mirror lab each football Saturday, ...

Ever wanted to take a tour of one of the most world renown astronomical mirror laboratories in the world? Now you can. The UA’s Steward Observatory is now conducting tours of the Mirror Lab facility ...

Physicists have finally turned a long standing thought experiment into a laboratory reality, showing that electromagnetic ...

Should you find yourself in a reflective mood, consider taking a tour of the University of Arizona Richard F. Caris Mirror Laboratory. That’s where a team of scientists and engineers make enormous, ...

The University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory is about to cast a new kind of giant optic for a unique wide-field survey telescope, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. The ...

The Steward Observatory Mirror Lab recently completed polishing a $23 million, 8.4-meter (27.5 feet) diameter mirror for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT). It is the first of eight giant mirrors that ...

“Mirror bacteria” made in a lab could endanger all life on earth, an international group of leading scientists have warned in a new report. All building-block molecules of life like DNA, proteins and ...

The University of Arizona Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory and the Carnegie Observatories of the Carnegie Institution have signed an agreement to produce the first mirror segment for the Giant ...

KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFPN) — A milestone in telescope-mirror technology, completed recently by Air Force scientists here, is leading to lightweight, space-based telescopes much larger than ...

All building-block molecules of life like DNA, proteins and carbohydrates have a unique structural property that still perplexes scientists. They have what is called structural asymmetry, or chirality ...