In recent years, the world of optics has undergone a major shift. New research shows how light can be bent, focused, and even ...

For being the world’s oldest known synthetic pigment, the original recipes for Egyptian blue remain a mystery. The ...

Chinese researchers have developed an infrared contact lens that makes night vision possible. Nanoparticles make the ...

Edinburgh Instruments, a spectroscopy instrument manufacturer based in Scotland, launched a new benchtop system for fluorescence spectroscopy. The FS5 v2 Spectrofluorometer is suitable for perovskite ...

Berly McCoy and Regina Barber of Short Wave talk about a hawk's clever hunting strategy, contacts that allow wearers to see ...

The internet’s fiber optic backbone already travels at the speed of light, but researchers have found a way to drastically ...

Accurate assessment of hNQO1 activities in living tumor models and ready differentiation of metastases from healthy tissue by fluorescent light-based protocols requires creation of hNQO1-responsive, ...

Astronomers have identified a repeating radio signal that is also emitting X-rays, a first-of-its-kind observation that may ...

Unlike night-vision goggles, which can only see infrared light in green, people wearing the contacts can see infrared light ...

Researchers have developed experimental contact lenses that use nanoparticles to convert the invisible wavelengths of ...

A remarkable aspect of this technology is its ability to project entirely different images depending on both the wavelength (color) and spin (polarization direction) of light. For example, ...

From smartphones and TVs to credit cards, technologies that manipulate light are deeply embedded in our daily lives, many of ...