The future of imaging extremely small objects may come down to doughnut-shaped beams of light, according to a study from researchers at JILA and the Department of Physics. The study explored the ...

What was the mysterious beam of light seen from Arizona and other western states on May 16? Was it STEVE? An astronomer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the night of May 16, a large beam of light resembling a spotlight was seen shooting into the night sky in the Southwest, but ...

Near-infrared light is invisible to humans. And yet, under the right conditions, the human eye can perceive it. Researchers ...

A team of researchers from the University of Oxford and Queen’s University Belfast in ...

In a new study, researchers at CU Boulder have used doughnut-shaped beams of light to take detailed images of objects too tiny to view with traditional microscopes. The new technique could help ...

A new laser-based technique can create images of structures too tiny to view with traditional microscopes, and without damaging them. The approach could help scientists inspect nanoelectronics, ...

In a new study, researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have used doughnut-shaped beams of light to take detailed images of objects too tiny to view with traditional microscopes. The new ...

Scatter pattern produced by doughnut-shaped beams of light bouncing off of an object with a regularly repeating structure. Credit: Wang, et al., 2023, "Optica" Scatter pattern produced by ...