Virtually every scientific field has made strides by harnessing light to study the properties of substances. This technique, called spectroscopy, has countless research applications, and innovations ...
The BepiColombo mission has been on its way to Mercury since 2018 and will finally start orbiting the planet and taking X-ray images in the second half of 2026 ...
SPIE Photonics West sees the global optics and photonics community come together to present and discuss the latest industry ...
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS sparks debate over its ancient origins and 'anomalous' signals as it prepares for a final ...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope found a barred spiral galaxy that formed when the universe was only two billion years old ...
A Russian expedition has located a long-lost Soviet nuclear waste disposal site in the Arctic's Barents Sea, revealing Cold ...
The Arctic Ocean has long served as a vault for Cold War secrets. As polar ice recedes and new marine corridors open, the ...
The global near-infrared (NIR) imaging market is projected to grow at a CAGR of approximately 7–8% over the next five years. This growth is driven by the rising burden of chronic diseases, the ...
Terahertz (THz) radiation, which occupies the frequency band between microwaves and infrared light, is essential in many next ...
Researchers have shown that consumer-grade 3D printers and low-cost materials can be used to produce multi-element optical ...
Researchers used consumer-grade 3D printers to create sub-$1 optical lenses that enable super-resolution nanoscale biological ...