A flat chip smaller than a fingernail can now do the work of 11 separate optical components, thanks to a counterintuitive ...

Scientists in Japan have developed a high-resolution X-ray telescope sharp enough to distinguish an object just 3.5 mm wide ...

UC Santa Barbara physics doctoral candidate has been named to Heising-Simons Foundation’s Science program’s new class of 51 Pegasi b Fellows ...

Instead of relying on your phone’s digital zoom (and the grainy results), this compact optic uses lenses to bring distant ...

The science fiction blockbuster wowed audiences with its depiction of space travel and more. Here's what NASA staff and other ...

Researchers generated stable vortex light in its lowest-energy state using liquid crystal traps and optical confinement.

In a lab at Osaka University, physicist Yoshiki Nakata and his colleagues fired a pulsed laser through a stack of three ...

So, you’ve heard about quantum teleportation, maybe from sci-fi shows or news headlines. It sounds like something ...

A new Yale School of Medicine (YSM) study has uncovered surprising new details about how our eyes process what we see. When ...

Researchers have developed a new imaging technique that captures more information about ultrafast processes in the microscopic world than was previously possible.

John Pendry is known for creating an invisibility cloak. Twenty years on, he has used the same principles to fashion an even ...

Darkness can outrun light, at least in the lab. Scientists have captured “dark points” moving faster than light, confirming a ...