Imagine snapping a photo where every detail, near and far, is perfectly sharp—from the flower petal right in front of you to the distant trees on the horizon. For over a century, camera designers have ...

Utah researchers demonstrated the capabilities of their flat lens with test images of the sun and moon. Credit: Menon Lab, University of Utah Utah researchers demonstrated the capabilities of their ...

There are funhouse mirrors in space. Objects in the universe can be so massive — often clusters of galaxies — that they warp ...

A team from the Max Born Institute (MBI) in Berlin and DESY in Hamburg has built the world’s first plasma lens capable of focusing attosecond pulses, a feat that could transform ultrafast physics. The ...

The universe is a big place, filled with objects and structures so large that their masses bend the light that passes by, sharpening the photons emanating from more distant light sources. These ...

In space, gravitational lensing occurs when the energy in a massive celestial body like a galaxy cluster creates enough of a curve in spacetime for the path of light around it to appear bent as if by ...

Astronomy is, in essence, an exercise in inference. We cannot touch the stars, nor scoop up galaxies in a lab. Instead, we decipher the universe through its light — its color, intensity, rhythm and ...

What if bacteria are conscious? New research suggests all life experiences awareness through unique lenses—and humans can ...

Advanced artificial intelligence has identified thousands of possible "gravitational lenses" — warps in space-time predicted by Albert Einstein — promising to enhance our understanding of dark matter ...

A recently-discovered powerful cosmic lens, which magnifies profoundly distant objects in space. Credit: William Sheu (UCLA) / Hubble Space Telescope There are funhouse mirrors in space. Objects in ...