Massive objects in space act as gravitational lenses, bending and focusing light. Scientists have now created a photonic analogue of a gravitational lens on a chip, and have shown that it is strong ...

A device called the Rochester Cloak uses an array of lenses to bend light, effectively rendering what is on the other side invisible to the eye. And you can try it for yourself. Michelle Starr Science ...

It’s hard to talk about how a production was shot, especially a big, expensive production, without talking about clever things that were done with lenses. There are an almost endless number of options ...

A recently-discovered powerful cosmic lens, which magnifies profoundly distant objects in space. There are funhouse mirrors in space. Objects in the universe can be so massive — often clusters of ...

Utah researchers demonstrated the capabilities of their flat lens with test images of the sun and moon. Credit: Menon Lab, University of Utah Utah researchers demonstrated the capabilities of their ...

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 ...

A telescope in space has captured a rare kind of cosmic allignment for the first time. NASA's Fermi telescope has captured the first gamma-ray measurements of a gravitational lens, a rare natural ...

Although manufacturers are constantly trying to make smartphones thinner and lighter, they're limited by the phones' curved glass camera lenses. Now, however, researchers have developed a flat lens ...

One of the problems with the cloaking devices developed to date -- and it's a big one -- is that they really only work if both the viewer and whatever is being cloaked remain still. This, of course, ...