Using advanced metasurfaces, researchers can now twist light to uncover hidden images and detect molecular handedness, potentially revolutionizing data encryption, biosensing, and drug safety.

A team of scientists has developed a powerful new way to detect subtle magnetic signals in common metals like copper, gold, and aluminum—using nothing more than light and a clever technique. Their ...

Wireless networks are normally invisible to the human eye, but a magic touch of creative photography can turn them into vibrant and colorful beams of light. With the help of an instrument called ...

Breakthrough discovery makes objects ‘invisible’ using tailor-made light beams. The research means scientists can not only look at what’s behind an object but through it. Adam Smith.

But the new study's researchers, from at the Technical University of Vienna, have developed a different strategy to render an object invisible — using a beam of invisibility. [ Now You See It: 6 ...

(Phys.org)—A team of researchers working at Philipps-Universität Marburg, in Germany has created a new kind of material that is able to convert a near-infrared laser beam into a visible beam of ...

A paper in Science Advances provides proof of a new concept, using new solid 3-D superlenses to break through the scale of things previously visible through a microscope.

It’s one thing to make an object invisible, like Harry Potter’s mythical cloak. But scientists have made an entire event impossible to see. They have invented a time masker.

Researchers from TU/e have transmitted data between the TU/e campus and the High Tech Campus over a 4.6 km distance using infrared light. This happened at the astonishing rate of 5.7 terabits per ...

Using a novel method, beams of laser light can be deflected using air alone. An invisible grating made only of air is not only immune to damage from the laser light, but it also preserves the ...

Scientists make transparent materials absorb light. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Journal Optica Funder Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (Minobrnauka) (3. ...

If the bodyguard is suddenly removed -- if the coupling laser is turned off as the probe light is passing through the gas cloud -- then the probe beam stops dead in its tracks, unable to move further.