An unexpected discovery in a Harvard lab has led to a breakthrough insight into choosing an unconventional material, silica, ...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a suite of algorithms to automate the counting of sister ...

Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...

Scientists have unveiled a new way to capture ultra-sharp optical images without lenses or painstaking alignment. The ...

Walking back into Josiah Quincy Elementary School in mid-November felt familiar at first, but it took only a few steps to see ...

Abstract: Composite insulations are routinely deployed as protective measures against high-temperature environments and corrosive influences on metal substrates. However, aging and cyclic processes ...

For more than a century, photographers have had to choose which part of a scene should be tack sharp and which parts would ...

Apple is reportedly testing next-generation ultra-thin flexible glass (UFG) for its book-style foldable iPhone as it works to make the display crease invisible and potentially solve one of the most ...

Abstract: We build a chip-scale confocal microscope using a 30-element optical phased array. We perform depth sensing by dynamically scanning the focal length and ...

The Trump administration, initially wary over the Justice Department’s release of Jeffrey Epstein documents, pounced on go-to villain Bill Clinton’s appearance in Friday’s trove of pictures, emails ...