Optical microscopy is over 400 years old, and in that time, it has come a long way. There are many variations of microscopes both in the selection of lenses, lighting, and other tricks to allow an ...

There has been a surprise discovery of ‘significant’ refraction of gamma rays which opens the door to nuclear photonics and the use of high energetic light beams to investigate the atomic nucleus.

The pressure exerted on a surface when it is struck by light is tiny, but it is enough to move very small objects. Shigeki Matsuo and co-workers at the University of Tokushima and the Nara Institute ...