Space telescopes are limited in size due to the difficulties and cost of getting into orbit. By revamping an old optical technology, researchers are working on a lightweight and thin telescope design.
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A new way to make high-frequency light could make it easier to look at things 10 times smaller than conventional microscopes can see.
In an update of one of the most famous experiments in physics, scientists have used ‘slits in time’ to explore the properties of light and ultrafast optical materials.
The sky looks blue on a sunny day – but at night we can see the faint glow of its true colour.
The impact of using electronic devices is critical during the first years of life, both visually and on the cognitive and social development of the child.
Life on Earth has dramatically changed the chemistry of the planet. Astronomers will measure light that bounces off distant planets to look for similar clues that they host life.
Researchers have long tried to unravel the puzzle of Jan van Eyck’s use of perspective in his masterpiece, the Arnolfini Portrait. New research suggests he may have had help from a novel machine.
The English astronomer and navigator Thomas Harriot died in 1621, leaving behind 8,000 pages of notes containing a trove of unpublished scientific discoveries.
For 60 years, physicists thought they knew exactly how coherent a laser could get. Now the ultimate quantum limit to laser coherence has been found, and it’s much much bigger than anybody thought.
Free space optical communication will allow the same connectivity in space we already have on Earth. And this will provide benefits across a number of sectors.
Using lasers to trap and move particles changed the way we’re able to study microscopic life.
Anish Kapoor made “Cloud Gate”, a giant bean-shaped mirror in Chicago. Visitors play with the light in the city and its surroundings, where our future lays.
In 1954, three scientists observed a paradox to which they gave their name: the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam recurrence. Now, fibre optics are on the way to finally providing an explanation.
Whether at a family gathering or in a research lab, getting access to images immediately was a game-changer. And Land’s innovations went far beyond the instant photo.
Using nanostructures on a flat piece of glass can make lenses smaller, lighter and much cheaper – while providing better image quality.
Single-pixel cameras, multi-sensor imaging and quantum technologies will change the way we take photos.
Male Birds of Paradise have patches of super-black plumage that absorb 99.95 percent of light. New research identified their feathers’ microscopic structures that make them look so very dark.
A new technique could help the police identify more criminals from just their footprints.
The laws of physics dictate that to pick out ever fainter objects from space and see them more sharply, we’re going to need a bigger telescope. And that means we need massive mirrors.
Research into invisibility cloaks has been flourishing over the past decade yet they have still not reached the market. But that may be about to change.
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Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Sciences, University of Arizona
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Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research Innovation and Entrepreneurship, RMIT University
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Associate Professor, Applied Sciences, RMIT University
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Visiting Professor of Film, Brown University
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PhD candidate, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Photonics and Optics, University of Sydney
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Professor of Ultrasonics, University of Bristol
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Professor of Bionanotechnology, Deakin University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Swinburne University of Technology
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Affiliate, School of Mathematics, Monash University
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Research Fellow in Dermatology, Harvard University
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Associate Professor of Dermatology, Harvard University
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Professor of Physics, Durham University
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Professor of Antennas and Electromagnetics, Queen Mary University of London
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Director, Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University
