Memorial art company Innerstela says it uses light-reflecting microscopes to create colorful art pieces from human or animal ...

Fiber optic SERS probes, called “optrodes,” combine spectroscopy with the flexibility and versatility of fiber optic cables.

Light doesn’t just help plants grow—it may also quietly hold them back. Researchers have uncovered a surprising mechanism where light strengthens the “glue” between a plant’s outer skin and its inner ...

A new study co-led by an Oregon Health & Science University researcher describes a breakthrough in microscopy tools that ...

A team of physicists has done something that sounds impossible: they filmed points of absolute darkness racing through a beam ...

Researchers have developed a camera inspired by mantis shrimp vision that captures ultraviolet, near-infrared and visible ...

Within the charcoal, archaeologists found traces of ash, willow, oak, olive, pistachio, grapevine, oleander, and the oldest ...

Nanostructured material traps excitons and removes excess charge, boosting room temperature light emission and enabling ...

A new study, published in Physical Review Letters, reports that scientists have successfully imaged the formation of ...

Mice make use of rapid nerve cell interactions in the brain's smell center to distinguish one odor from another, a new study ...

Collisional quantum gates based on fermionic atoms have been realized independently by researchers in Germany and Switzerland ...