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

Researchers based out of the Philippines have created a tunable liquid lens system that could be used in classrooms and other low-cost environments. The system is devised of several droplets of ...

Scientists have developed a ground-breaking achromatic lens for X-rays. This allows the X-ray beams to be accurately focused on a single point even if they have different wavelengths. The new lens ...

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 ...

A man has invented a contact lens robot that can remove and insert lenses for individuals who have trouble doing it with their fingers. Craig Hershoff created the bot after his unsteady hands made it ...

“In optics, there was a problem,” says Amit Agrawal, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Md. If you wanted to focus a single lens to two different points ...

In 'To Boldly Go,' multiple authors explore leadership and strategy through the lens of science fiction. (Courtesy: Steven Leonard) From cell phones to space stations and more, science fiction has ...

Many contact lens wearers have a dirty little secret: They sometimes sleep or nap in their lenses. But — as Live Science has reported many times before — this bad habit could raise their risk of ...

Able to adjust its focusing distance from 5 centimeters to infinity in less than 10 milliseconds, the miniature lens may provide variable focusing for digital and cellphone cameras, medical endoscopes ...

Although manufacturers are constantly trying to make smartphones thinner and lighter, they're limited by the phones' curved glass camera lenses. Now, however, researchers have developed a flat lens ...

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