Using a £100,000 grant (approximately $155,000 USD), Leonhardt seeks to create a material that can bend light, ... Normally light bends as it passes through different types of materials.

A Princeton-led research team has created an easy-to-produce material from the stuff of computer chips that has the rare ability to bend light in the opposite direction from all naturally occurring ...

For the first time, physicists have devised a way to make visible light travel in the opposite direction that it normally bends when passing from one material to another, like from air through ...

When a beam of light passes through water or some other transparent material, the direction it’s traveling changes, which is why a spoon sitting in a glass of water looks like someone bent it.

Light goes around corners as if they’re not there. New “corner cloak” directs light around sharp bends Light goes around corners as if they're not there.

Air bends light. Well, OK, not exactly. A beam of light could pass through air all day long (as long as you have a layer of air 26 billion kilometers long) and not deviate a whit.

Materials that bend light in unnatural ways are often touted as the path to futuristic technologies such as cloaking devices and super-powered lenses. But such materials are hard to make, but ...

Light is traveling from the air, through the glass, through the water, through the glass, and into the air again. This forces the light to change speed and refract (or bend).

Light waves and other forms of electromagnetic radiation bend whenever they pass from one medium to another. This phenomenon, called refraction, is readily observable when a straw placed into a ...