For centuries, the optic lens has bent light through translucent, curved material, but now flat lenses are reimagining the ...

For centuries, lenses have worked the same way: curved glass or plastic bending light to bring images into focus. But traditional lenses have a major drawback—the more powerful they need to be, the ...

For centuries, telescopes have relied oncurved glass lenses to bend light and bring the cosmos into focus. While effective, these traditional lenses come with a major drawback—the more powerful they ...

For centuries, cameras and telescopes have relied on curved glass or plastic lenses to bend light and bring images into focus ...

For centuries, lenses have worked the same way: curved glass or plastic bending light to bring images into focus. But traditional lenses have a major drawback—the more powerful they need to be ...

Researchers at the University of Utah developed a new flat lens for telescopes that is lighter but maintains image quality.

Okay, take a Lensbaby. These endearing oddities do things ordinary lenses only dream about—like bending. Tip them this way or that and suddenly the picture has a strange, lovely, soft-focus look ...

NGC 6505 is acting as a gravitational lens, bending light from a galaxy far behind it. The almost perfect alignment of NGC 6505 and the background galaxy has bent and magnified the light from the ...

These two defects are treated with spectacle lenses, which refract (bend) the light rays so that they do focus on the retina. Someone who is short-sighted can see near objects clearly, but cannot ...