Light can be sculpted into countless shapes. Yet building optical devices that can simultaneously manipulate many different ...

Controlling light is an important technological challenge—not just at the large scale of optics in microscopes and telescopes ...

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

Scientists have turned a long-standing sci‑fi idea into working hardware, using pure light to move data wirelessly through the air instead of relying on radio waves or copper traces. The result is a ...

In the field of materials characterization, optical microscopy is one of the most commonly used imaging techniques. It is estimated that the diffraction limit of optical light is half of the ...

Using data from the New Horizons spacecraft, astronomers have quantified the cosmic optical background (COB), confirming it as the cumulative light from billions of galaxies since the universe's ...

In a discovery that blurs the line between biology and technology, scientists have found that heart-shaped clams use fiber optic–like structures to channel sunlight through their shells in much the ...

Motors and gear trains with micrometer dimensions and powered by light are fabricated using semiconductor lithography and ...

Brain organoids have helped unravel the understanding of cellular diversities, complex interactions, and neuronal networks. Human-induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) can be used to generate brain ...