No image is infinitely sharp. For 150 years, it has been known that no matter how ingeniously you build a microscope or a ...

If Fox Mulder had tenure, he’d be Greg Eghigian. Not just because he also wants to believe, but because he wants citations ...

The green flash is a rare optical phenomenon above the horizon directly at sunrise or sunset. The color is caused by green ...

For the design of future materials, it is important to understand how the individual atoms inside a material interact with ...

In this picture, we see a snowy landscape, as a hunter is on the prowl. Armed with a rifle, the hunter is on the lookout for ...

As an example of the device capability, optically-controlled optical switching has been successfully demonstrated, up to 50 MHz (potentially 10 GHz). A general rate equation has also been developed to ...

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan Department of Applied Physics, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya ...

Birds of a feather flocked together for this orphaned blackbird chick when it was adopted by a mistle thrush in an extremely rare phenomenon. Adorable close-up photos show the endangered thrush ...

They are intensively exploited within the regime of different classic optical phenomena—diffraction in photonic crystals, localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) of plasmonic nanostructures, ...

A local man snapped an unusual optical phenomenon which appeared while he was up a ladder. Ian Lott was working in a back garden in the Mount Batten area of Plymstock when he looked up and spotted the ...

A local man snapped an unusual optical phenomenon which appeared while he was up a ladder. Ian Lott was working in a back garden in the Mount Batten area of Plymstock when he looked up and ...