To escape glasses and invasive contact lenses, many turn to more permanet corrective eye surgery, including the popular LASIK ...

Nancy Shute examines the exciting potential of the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory and muses on the mesmerizing world of fractals.

There has long been a mystery when calculating how an incoming light wave scatters off an object and becomes a modified, ...

Researchers have developed a technique to fold glass sheets into microscopic 3D photonic structures directly on a chip—a ...

Researchers have developed a technique to fold glass sheets into microscopic 3D photonic structures directly on a chip, which ...

Everyone who ever took a photo knows the problem: if you want a detailed image, you need a lot of light. In microscopy, ...

Artificial intelligence software is designing novel experimental protocols that improve upon the work of human physicists, although the humans are still “doing a lot of baby-sitting.” ...

With Sentinel-5, the European Space Agency (ESA) is continuing its Copernicus program for climate research. The mission was successfully launched tonight. Once again, several optical components from ...

High-end lenses, although offering high-quality images, suffer from both insufficient affordability and bulky design, which hamper their applications in low-budget scenarios or on low-payload ...

To address fidelity loss in deep-tissue imaging, Prof. Peng Xi’s team at Peking University developed Confocal² Spinning-Disk Image Scanning Microscopy (C²SD-ISM). By combining spinning-disk confocal ...

Viltrox has just launched the latest in its growing Air series fast autofocus prime lenses - which all boast a maximum aperture of f/1.7. The newest addition is the Viltrox AF 15mm f/1.7 - which will ...

We spent a full year testing nearly 40 X-mount lenses to figure out which ones make the most sense for Fujifilm shooters.