The point is that we generally consider light to be good, safe, even comforting. Yet when it comes to our skin, things are a ...

Camera manufacturers go out of their way to reduce this to just the visible spectrum in order to produce photos that look right to us. But, what if you want your camera to take photos of the full ...

A rainbow contains all the colours of the visible spectrum. It is often possible to see a secondary bow, which is slightly larger and fainter than the first – and the colours are in the opposite ...

Researchers at The University of Manchester’s National Graphene Institute have created optical devices with a unique range of tunability, covering the entire electromagnetic spectrum, including ...

The data used to create the image is from a Hubble Space Telescope project to capture and map Jupiter's superstorm system.

Paper-thin optical lenses simple enough to mass produce like microchips could enable a new generation of compact optical devices. A team with researchers at the University of Tokyo and JSR Corp ...

Researchers introduce a cost-effective method for producing optical Fresnel zone plate lenses, using colored photoresists for ...