It is no mystery that light is essential to human life. Since the discovery of fire, humans have developed various artificial light sources, such as incandescent lamps, gaslights, discharge lamps, and ...

A new type of invisibility cloak that hides objects from light in diffusive media such as a cloudy liquid – rather than a clear medium such as air – has been unveiled by physicists in Germany. Based ...

We’ve all encountered some ghastly DIY popsicle stick creation–usually at a yard sale or a thrift shop–and have thought, shaking our heads, “I can make that myself.” That’s far not the case with Stick ...

Researchers have just discovered a new type of light diffusion in tiny optical fibers 50 times thinner than a strand of hair. This phenomenon, which varies according to the fiber's environment, could ...

The brainchild of French designer Arturo Erbsman, the Atmos lamp eloquently uses water condensation and evaporation to diffuse light into the room. Anthony Domanico CNET freelancer Anthony Domanico is ...

A research team has developed a new way to measure and predict how plant leaves scatter and reflect light, revealing that ...

For the first time, a new technique that focuses diffuse light inside a dynamic scattering medium containing living tissue has been revealed by researchers. In addition, they have improved the speed ...

Ultra-deep images, such as this one from Hubble, still have fundamental limitations. We cannot be certain we've identified all of the faint, small, diffuse objects in this field of view. From its ...

Light is everything when it comes to photography. It’s why photographers love shooting during a golden hour sunset so much. But sometimes your shoots aren’t going to happen during that perfect ...

Lihong Wang, PhD, continues to build on his groundbreaking technology that allows light deep inside living tissue during imaging and therapy. In the Jan. 5 issue of Nature Communications, Wang, the ...