Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A team of physicists collaborating between the University of ...

We’ve already seen a seriously sizeable collection of Viltrox Z-mount lenses, from its featherweight ‘Air’ series through to ...

Fresnel lenses were invented over two centuries ago to help lighthouses prevent shipwrecks. They're still enhancing safety, but now it's for cars and trucks.

Ultra wide-angle fisheye lenses are typically thick, bulbous contraptions, that can't easily be incorporated into devices such as smartphones. That could be about to change, though, as engineers have ...

Gravitational lenses, which are massive galaxies or galaxy clusters that act as a magnifying glass by bending light passing them, are one of the Universe's golden gifts to astronomers. To help unlock ...

Researchers have created an optical lens that can be placed on an inexpensive smartphone to magnify images by a magnitude of 120, all for just 3 cents a lens. Researchers at the University of Houston ...

Astronomers have caught their best look ever at blobs of hot gas fleeing a supermassive black hole, thanks to a new kind of cosmic magnifying glass. Anthony Readhead of the Owens Valley Radio ...

All the way back in 2008, in short 20-minute bursts, laboratory rabbits saw a future that has never been seen by a human, to this day. Though they didn’t know it, when these creatures opened their ...

Engineers have designed a wide-angle lens that is completely flat. It is the first flat fisheye lens to produce crisp, 180-degree panoramic images. To capture panoramic views in a single shot, ...

Many people with diabetes need to prick their finger for a drop of blood up to eight times a day to monitor their glucose levels, an uncomfortable and cumbersome task. It can all add up to tens of ...

Apollo 15 was the first of that program's "J missions," which featured longer stays on the lunar surface and more science-heavy timelines. As part of that, for the first time, the lunar module also ...