Dr Jeannine Hess examined how antimicrobial resistance already imposes a vast global death toll, why the antibiotic development pipeline has weakened and how her lab’s light-activated metal ...

You can tell a lot about a material based on the type of light shining at it: Optical light illuminates a material's surface, ...

MIT physicists have built a new microscope that can see quantum motion inside superconductors ...

A new optical device allows researchers to generate and switch between two stable, donut-shaped light patterns called ...

How physically magnifying objects using a key ingredient in diapers has opened an unprecedented view of the microbial world.

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Space has long been a matter of great curiosity and perplexity for humans. Astronauts ...

Researchers have built a paper-thin chip that converts infrared light into visible light and directs it precisely, all without mechanical motion. The design overcomes a long-standing efficiency-versus ...

The invention of tiny devices capable of precisely controlling the direction and behavior of light is essential to the ...