Contact lenses get pretty thin nowadays, but they’ve got nothing on a new lens from scientists at Stanford and the University of Amsterdam. The team has created the world’s thinnest lens, measuring ...

Spider sense: a long-legged cellar spider used in the study (left) and the dome lens make using its dragline silk. (Courtesy: Cheng-Yang Liu) Spider silk has been used by researchers in Taiwan to ...

Micro-lens machinists Polina Medvedskaya and Ivan Lyatun. (Courtesy: Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University) An international team of researchers has produced a stack of diamond micro-lenses precise ...

Learn how to determine the image location and height in lenses with this clear, step-by-step tutorial! This video explains the principles of lens optics, including magnification, focal points, and ray ...

Discover how converging lenses create real and virtual images in this clear and engaging physics tutorial. This video breaks down the principles of refraction, focal points, and image formation, using ...

Given their tiny size, individual atoms are notoriously tricky to see and manipulate, but finding ways to do so would be extremely useful. The invention of the laser in the 1960s eventually led to the ...