"Light transmitted through an optical fiber is distorted as it propagates. As the size of the fiber approaches the width of a ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Swiss scientists have developed an ultra-thin lens that turns infrared light into visible light using lithium niobate and nanoscale patterns.

It depends on what it means to "see" something. Human eyes can make out objects down to the diameter of a strand of hair. Light microscopes, also called optical microscopes, extend our vision to ...

Minuscule gears that are thinner than a human hair and powered by light could be used to study human cells or power tiny, complex robots. Gear systems often struggle to work at a size below a ...

LONDON, England (WKRC) - A team of chemists created strands of spaghetti that are 200 times thinner than human hair and are even narrower than some wavelengths of light. A new paper from Nanoscale ...