Gravitational lensing exposed a distant protocluster once seen as a faint smudge, revealing eleven dusty star-forming galaxies through combined ALMA and NSF VLA observations.

Moving photonic ICs into the same package as silicon helps improve performance, but lasers remain outside. A new monolithic laser array allows hundreds of colors, each individually software-tunable ...

Microsoft's document-scanning Lens app is no longer available for download. For basic scanning, try Apple Notes, Google Drive, or PhotoScan. For more advanced features, look at Adobe Scan or iScanner.

Here's a rare chance to pick up one of the highest quality OLED TVs at a bargain price. Amazon currenttly has the 65" Panasonic Z95A 4K OLED TV with Fire TV for just $1,199 with free delivery. That's ...

High-end optical methods such as super-resolution microscopy exploit the properties of advanced components and lenses, but these items can be expensive to source and maintain. Creating optomechanical ...

Using an approach that combines 3D printing, silicone molding and a UV curable clear resin, researchers fabricated an inexpensive lenslet array, which they used for super-resolution imaging in a ...

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While some of the world's biggest tech companies including Meta, Google and (reportedly) Apple are eyeing the future of smart glasses, startups are working on a significant innovation for the other ...

Finnish eyewear company IXI is gearing up to launch smart glasses that look just like ordinary spectacles, but are able to “autofocus” based on the perceived needs of the wearer. The glasses contain ...

WASHINGTON — Array Labs, a Silicon Valley startup developing radar-based Earth observation satellites, announced Jan. 5 it raised $20 million in a Series A round as it pushes to bring lower-cost ...

Imaging technology has transformed how we observe the universe—from mapping distant galaxies with radio telescope arrays to unlocking microscopic details inside living cells. Yet despite decades of ...

The most important thing to know about Fresnel lenses, before casually attempting to drop them into conversation, has to do with phonetics: "Fresnel" is pronounced "Fruh-NEL." If the silent "S" makes ...