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 ...

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 ...

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

Described in Cell, the contact lenses are transparent, so they convey both infrared and visible light simultaneously when ...

Finding a better solution for visual disorders such as color blindness, a team of scientists from home and abroad have ...

Scientists created contact lenses with nanoparticles that let humans see invisible infrared light signals without power.