CSS3 Media Queries are an extension to CSS Media Types. They are used to assign different CSS stylesheets to a web page depending on browser window size. A Media Query consists of a media type and one or more expressions to limit the scope of style sheets.
On CSS Tricks, A Web Design Community created by Chris Coyier, a web developer and designer who also co-authored Digging into WordPress. Chris covers a number of aspects of media queries including: