Flash Physics is our daily pick of the latest need-to-know developments from the global physics community selected by Physics World‘s team of editors and reporters Tighter focus: new lens improves ...

An international team of scientists has tailored special X-ray glasses to concentrate the beam of an X-ray laser stronger than ever before. The individually produced corrective lens eliminates the ...

Vision techniques have become so sophisticated that you can sit in a chair, feel absolutely nothing, and walk out 30 minutes later with 20/20 vision. And, not only that, the knowledge imparted by an ...

Do you know that as you get older, the flexible crystalline lenses in your eyes become stiffer? This stiffness makes it difficult for the lens to deform its shape to suit the distance you are aiming ...