Even a baseball pitcher with a strong fastball will find situations when a slow pitch with a curved trajectory will perform better. Two independent studies now demonstrate how a curved beam of light ...

Last month on a rainy grey morning in north-east England I headed to the Daresbury Laboratory as the SuperSTEM lab there celebrated the installation of its latest world-class microscope. Industrial ...

Researchers have developed a way for photographers and microscopists to create a 3D image through a single lens, without moving the camera. Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied ...

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