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 ...

Currently, Kyocera’s technology enables aerial images whose focal positions vary by wavelength. In the future, increasing the ...

Microscopy continues to transform the life sciences. Here are five recent breakthroughs made possible by the technique.

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Researchers used consumer-grade 3D printers to create sub-$1 optical lenses that enable super-resolution nanoscale biological ...

Optical computing has emerged as a powerful approach for high-speed and energy-efficient information processing. Diffractive ...

An optical drone, dipping low before a herd of antelope, collects footage for a new documentary. Equipped with advanced optics fixed securely to its unobtrusive body, it can take high-quality imagery ...

ISE 2026 is quickly approaching. Before Fira de Barcelona welcomes thousands of visitors from Feb. 3-6, SCN asked several ...