A simple light-based method is uncovering hidden fiber networks inside the brain and body, even in tissue slides over 100 years old.

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have contributed to new insights into the most long-lived cosmic explosion ever recorded. The event was a gamma-ray burst that remained ...

The Sun has captivated humanity for millennia. And yet, despite being our closest star, studying it is not easy. Its blinding ...

Clean pigments in cosmetics reflect a commitment to safety and sustainability, emphasizing purity, particle engineering, and ...

The unique behavior of nanoparticles is driven by their size, surface structure, and interaction dynamics, all of which must be measured and characterized with high precision. Nanoparticles interact, ...

A project at the University of Tokyo has developed a bidirectional scattering microscopy technique for imaging complex cell structures. Discussed in Nature Communications, the platform is designed to ...

Cyanobacteria, ancient oxygenic photoautotrophs originated in the Precambrian period, exhibit remarkable adaptability to diverse ecological systems. Light, a critical environmental factor, exerts ...

A fundamental difficulty of working with nanoparticles is that your objects of study are too small for an optical microscope to resolve, and thus measuring their size can be quite a challenge. Of ...

Abstract: Imaging through scattering is challenging, as even a thin layer can randomly perturb light propagation and obscure hidden objects. Accurate closed-form modeling of forward scattering remains ...

Physicists have discovered that when beams of light interact at the quantum level, they can generate ghost-like particles that briefly emerge from nothing and affect real matter. This rare phenomenon, ...

Usually, light waves can pass through each other without any resistance. According to the laws of electrodynamics, two light beams can exist in the same place without influencing each other; they ...

MIT physicists have performed an idealized version of one of the most famous experiments in quantum physics. Their findings demonstrate, with atomic-level precision, the dual yet evasive nature of ...