At f/8, every lens produces an identical 10.7-micron diffraction blur on your sensor regardless of focal length or aperture ...

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One of the physical properties of sound is its wave-like behavior. Diffraction, refraction, and interference are ...

UCLA researchers built an AI system that uses light to analyze more than a dozen videos simultaneously, detecting deepfakes with nearly 98% accuracy. Its speed, low energy demands, and resistance to ...

Researchers at POSTECH have built an electrically switchable dual-focus metalens that extends the imaging depth of ...

Many fascinating phases in quantum materials emerge when electrons, atoms and other microscopic components begin to act ...

A UCLA light-powered AI reaches 98% accuracy in deepfake detection, screening 15 videos at once with a fraction of the energy ...

Gold on the left, red on the right and a blinding diffraction-spiked star in the middle: that is how NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope rendered NGC 7129, a star-forming region in the constellation ...

In the race to build ever smaller and more complex computer chips, one of the most stubborn enemies is not the transistor ...

Evident announced today that it has completed the acquisition of CrestOptics S.p.A., a Rome-based developer and manufacturer ...

Using total and resonant X-ray scattering combined with large-scale structural modeling, we investigate the lattice modulations in Er₅Ir₄Si₁₀, which hosts coexisting incommensurate and commensurate ...

Researchers at UCLA have developed an optical-neural processor that uses light to analyse multiple video streams ...