An international collaboration of researchers developed two new complementary approaches for versatile but precise light intensity measurements in fluorescence imaging systems. Accurate measurements ...

Easily measure the intensity of near-infrared light sources used for sensing applications, from facial and gesture recognition to eye tracking and LiDAR. The Radiant Vision Systems Near-Infrared (NIR) ...

Green fluorescent proteins (GFPs) in eppendorf tubes glow green because they have absorbed exitation light. Credit: Juan Carlos Fonseca Mata Green fluorescent proteins (GFPs) in eppendorf tubes glow ...

Your eyesight might be good enough to confidently read the tiny text at the optometrist from a few meters away. But you're left in the dust by a new device recently demoed by researchers, which was ...

Physicists use a 350-year-old theorem that explains the workings of pendulums and planets to reveal new properties of light waves. Since the 17th century, when Isaac Newton and Christiaan Huygens ...

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