Researchers have shown that consumer-grade 3D printers and low-cost materials can be used to produce multi-element optical ...

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

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

New device could be used to observe structures as small as individual proteins, as well as the environment in which they move ...

We take photos faster than ever, with research suggesting around 1.8 trillion are snapped worldwide each year—about 5 billion a day. But how many of those are just throwaway selfies or random ...