Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A light, cheap space telescope design would make it possible to put many individual units in space at once. Katie Yung, Daniel ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists in Switzerland have developed an ultra-thin metalens that converts invisible infrared light into visible light by ...

Infrared light passes through the metal lens and is converted into violet light and focused in a focal point due to the material and the special surface structures—enlarged in the magnifying glass.

A team of engineers at the University of Utah have developed a new method of creating optics which are flat, but are still able to bend light to a single point like traditional lenses. This ...

WASHINGTON—Researchers have developed a thin lens with a continuously tunable focal length. The new lens could one day make visual fatigue from augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) devices a thing of ...

Astronomers have discovered more than 5,000 planets outside of the solar system to date. The grand question is whether any of these planets are home to life. To find the answer, astronomers will ...

Astronomers have discovered more than 5,000 planets outside of the solar system to date. The grand question is whether any of these planets are home to life. To find the answer, astronomers will ...

Infrared light passes through the metal lens and is converted into violet light and focussed in a focal point due to the material and the special surface structures – enlarged in the magnifying glass.