Adaptive liquid lens: A lens based on a new electrically responsive fluid changes shape, and thus focal length, when a voltage is applied. (Courtesy: Miao Xu, Hefei University of Technology) Materials ...

A new type of flat, ultrathin lens designed to be free of chromatic aberrations has been developed by researchers in the US. The device has a variety of potential applications, from ultralight imaging ...

ZEISS' new CinCraft LensCore plugin launches June 1 and uses GPU-accelerated ray tracing to bring real lens physics such as bokeh, distortion, and vignetting into Nuke compositing. ZEISS CinCraft ...

The Sony FE 600mm f/6.3 GM OSS is unfeasibly small, lightweight and affordable, boldly going where no super-telephoto prime ...

Researchers propose inducing density variations in a plasma to create a lens that can focus a petawatt-scale laser beam without being damaged. The team’s concept creates a lens by inducing patterns of ...

New research from the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) shows why widely used algorithms for measuring economic complexity produce trustworthy results and how these tools may benefit diverse areas such as ...

His photographs show scientists and experiments, large physics facilities and tiny devices, enthusiastic crowds of conference participants and lone researchers absorbed in thought. For almost half a ...

This is a Physics unit worksheet package for Grade 10 Science. These optics worksheets are 19 pages long and contain answers. The topics include: light theory, light calculations, images, reflection, ...

Researchers are making progress toward a “perfect lens” that will be able to resolve an organelle assembling a protein or a virus attacking a cell. From ribosomes assembling proteins to viruses ...