Physics is beautiful in its ideas and in the people who pursue them across borders. What better, then, than for 16 laboratories across Asia, Europe and North America to throw open their doors for a ...

Contact lenses get pretty thin nowadays, but they’ve got nothing on a new lens from scientists at Stanford and the University of Amsterdam. The team has created the world’s thinnest lens, measuring ...

Spider sense: a long-legged cellar spider used in the study (left) and the dome lens make using its dragline silk. (Courtesy: Cheng-Yang Liu) Spider silk has been used by researchers in Taiwan to ...

Micro-lens machinists Polina Medvedskaya and Ivan Lyatun. (Courtesy: Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University) An international team of researchers has produced a stack of diamond micro-lenses precise ...

We compare and contrast concave and convex lenses by drawing ray diagrams. In this Closer Look segment on Lenses, we compare and contrast concave and convex lenses by drawing ray diagrams and ...

Given their tiny size, individual atoms are notoriously tricky to see and manipulate, but finding ways to do so would be extremely useful. The invention of the laser in the 1960s eventually led to the ...