Drug Treatment for Cataracts Might Soon Become a Reality
Anglia Ruskin University expert leads work on an anti-cataract drug, which shows promising results in lab tests Currently, cataracts can only be cured with surgery….
Anglia Ruskin University expert leads work on an anti-cataract drug, which shows promising results in lab tests Currently, cataracts can only be cured with surgery….
New design could enable high-quality wide-angle cameras that can possibly fit into smartphones. Researchers have designed a new compact camera that acquires wide-angle images of…
Paul Scherrer Institute scientists have developed a groundbreaking achromatic lens for X-rays. This allows the X-ray beams to be accurately focused on a single point…
New approach lays groundwork for compact 3D displays that create more realistic virtual scenes. Researchers have demonstrated a prototype glasses-free 3D light field display system…
By eliminating lenses, this advance could benefit a host of applications, including medical imaging, industrial inspection, and art analysis. Researchers have developed a new, focus-free…
Technology advance enables filter-free imaging sensors that are poised to improve low-light and fast imaging for smartphones and autonomous vehicles. Researchers have shown that newly…
Inspired by a concept for discovering exoplanets with a giant space telescope, a team of researchers is developing holographic lenses that render visible and infrared…
The cosmic microwave background, or CMB, is the electromagnetic echo of the Big Bang, radiation that has been traveling through space and time since the…
Polished glass has been at the center of imaging systems for centuries. Their precise curvature enables lenses to focus light and produce sharp images, whether…
By plating a very thin wafer of silicon with a nanometer-thin layer of gold, applied physicists have created an ultrathin, flat lens that focuses light…
New research into gamma rays has led to a discovery that will make many new applications possible in medicine and materials research. Physicists at the…
As researchers at Ames Laboratory aim to move innovations from the realm of science fiction closer to reality, they developed a method to evaluate different…
By studying the brittlestar Ophiocoma wendtii, whose body is covered with tiny crystalline lenses made of calcium carbonate, scientists were able to create high quality…