Scientists have found a way to achieve negative refraction—where light bends the "wrong" way—using carefully arranged atomic arrays instead of engineered metamaterials. This breakthrough has enormous ...

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Here’s how it works. The best iPhone lenses can quickly boost the quality of your smartphone photos and videos. Both the new iPhone 16 Pro models feature 5x telephoto lenses, while older iPhone ...

We’ve always been big fans of Sony’s top-flight G Master lenses. They’re big and beautiful, but expensive, designed to suit the best Sony cameras for professionals. These lenses aim for the ultimate ...

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ABC Science took three packaging products that are common and relatively easy to recycle — glass bottles, aluminium cans and PET plastic bottles — to see just how much of each makes it through ...

Want to preserve the planetary parade or capture the Lynx constellation? The best lenses for astrophotography can help you take beautiful, breathtaking images of the night sky. If you're stepping ...

As a doctoral student, Kaner contributed to the discovery of electrically conductive plastic by his advisors Alan MacDiarmid and Alan Heeger, who later received a Nobel Prize for their work. Other ...

The team used a publicly available design from the website OpenFlexure to produce the microscope's frame, and clear plastic lenses they designed themselves that cost $0.13 / £0.11 AU$0.22, using ...

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Paper-thin optical lenses simple enough to mass produce like microchips could enable a new generation of compact optical devices. Researchers have fabricated and tested flat lenses called Fresnel ...