The year was 2012. The smartphone market was already well established, but quality mobile photography was still very much in its infancy. Apple and most other manufacturers had only started focusing ...

As we all know, light on its own tends to travel in a straight line. When it gets sent through an aperture like a flashlight, diffraction occurs, which causes the beam to widen and lose its intensity.

Scientists have created the first neutron 'Airy beam,' which has unusual capabilities that ordinary neutron beams do not. The achievement could enhance neutron-based techniques for investigating the ...

We learned in science class that light beams travel in straight lines and spread through a process known as diffraction –– and they can't go around corners. But now researchers at Tel Aviv University ...

If you shine a beam of light from a laser or flashlight, the beam will spread out over distance, becoming wider and less intense far from the source. That phenomenon is called diffraction, and it is ...

When Galileo Galilei used a new invention called the telescope to watch the heavens, he revolutionized astronomy. But his estimates of the distances to the stars were thousand of times too short. A ...

Place the laser on top of the lab jacks, making sure the laser is pointed away from people. Place the slide mount on the optical rail and insert the sample slide to the slide mount. Plug in the laser ...

The researchers customized this adaptive optics scanning light ophthalmoscope to improve imaging resolution by strategically blocking light in various locations of the instrument. (Courtesy: Johnny ...

In a physics first, a team including scientists from UB and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has created a way to make beams of neutrons travel in curves. These Airy beams ...

In a physics first, a team including scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has created a way to make beams of neutrons travel in curves. These Airy beams (named for ...