An unexpected discovery in a Harvard lab has led to a breakthrough insight into choosing an unconventional material, silica, ...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a suite of algorithms to automate the counting of sister ...

Scientists have unveiled a new way to capture ultra-sharp optical images without lenses or painstaking alignment. The ...

A new kind of microscope is giving scientists a way to watch life inside cells with a clarity that feels almost unfair.

Abstract: We build a chip-scale confocal microscope using a 30-element optical phased array. We perform depth sensing by dynamically scanning the focal length and ...