Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Microscopes have long been scientists’ eyes into the unseen, revealing everything from bustling cells to viruses and nanoscale ...

Pushing optical imaging below the diffraction limit usually requires complicated illumination schemes and still suffers from weak, unstable signals ...

This figure illustrates the result of distributed temperature sensing using a perfluorinated graded-index plastic optical fiber (POF). The top diagram shows the structure of the sensing POF, including ...

Researchers have developed a new microscope that can visualize the optical response of surfaces at an unprecedented spatial resolution of one nanometer. This paves the way for optical microscopy of ...

Achieving optical imaging beyond the diffraction limit imposed by a single finite aperture remains an important objective in astronomy, remote ...

Photothermal AFM-IR technology provides spatially resolved infrared spectroscopy for detailed compositional mapping of ...

Pushing optical imaging below the diffraction limit usually requires complicated illumination schemes and still suffers from ...

Illustration of Remondo’s partial aperture imaging system, or PAIS. WASHINGTON — An Israeli space startup says it has found a way to extract high-resolution imagery from satellites small enough to fit ...