Tag: Optics
I’ve fired one of America’s most powerful lasers – here’s what...
Ahmed Helal, The University of Texas at Austin
If you walk across the open yard in front of the...
To search for alien life, astronomers will look for clues in...
Chris Impey, University of Arizona and Daniel Apai, University of Arizona
The ingredients for life are spread throughout the...
70 years of instant photos, thanks to inventor Edwin Land’s Polaroid...
Ann Elsner, Indiana University
It probably happens every minute of the day: A little girl demands to see the photo her parent has just taken...
Delivering VR in perfect focus with nanostructure meta-lenses
Federico Capasso, Harvard University; Alexander Yutong Zhu, Harvard University, and Wei-Ting Chen, Harvard University
If wearing a virtual reality or augmented reality headset is ever...
Super-black feathers can absorb virtually every photon of light that hits...
Dakota McCoy, Harvard University
What do birds and aerospace engineers have in common? Both have invented incredibly dark, “super-black” surfaces that absorb almost every last...
EXPLORING NATURE
Hurricanes devastated Florida’s East Coast – then seagrass made an unexpected comeback
Stephanie Insalaco-Wyner, Southwestern University and Hannah V. Herrero, University of Tennessee
Florida’s Indian River Lagoon has been an ecosystem...
