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Researchers have created an optical lens that can be placed on an inexpensive smartphone to magnify images by a magnitude of 120, all for just 3 cents a lens. Researchers at the University of Houston ...

Engineers have designed a wide-angle lens that is completely flat. It is the first flat fisheye lens to produce crisp, 180-degree panoramic images. To capture panoramic views in a single shot, ...

Ultra wide-angle fisheye lenses are typically thick, bulbous contraptions, that can't easily be incorporated into devices such as smartphones. That could be about to change, though, as engineers have ...

Gravitational lenses, which are massive galaxies or galaxy clusters that act as a magnifying glass by bending light passing them, are one of the Universe's golden gifts to astronomers. To help unlock ...

Inspired by the human eye, our biomedical engineering lab at Georgia Tech has designed an adaptive lens made of soft, light-responsive, tissuelike materials. Our study is published in the journal ...

Apollo 15 was the first of that program's "J missions," which featured longer stays on the lunar surface and more science-heavy timelines. As part of that, for the first time, the lunar module also ...

Grinding glass is one way to make a lens. Using plastic goop, a little salt, and electricity is now another way. That’s what researchers at Lucent Technologies’ Bell Labs in Murray Hill, N.J., have ...

14mm is a suitable choice of lens for versatility across a number of photographic genres. The incredible light-gathering ...

For centuries, telescopes have relied on curved lenses and mirrors to observe the Universe. A team of researchers has recently developed a flat, lightweight lens capable of capturing precise color ...

Many contact lens wearers have a dirty little secret: They sometimes sleep or nap in their lenses. But — as Live Science has reported many times before — this bad habit could raise their risk of ...