New technology published in Nature Communications could revolutionize biomedical diagnostics with a safer, portable, and low-cost imaging solution ...

An optical illusion apparently determines whether you're positive or prefer keep your distance – so what will you see when you look at the viral image shown here?

How Two Neuroscientists View Optical Illusions The Best Illusion of the Year contest offers researchers, and participants, an opportunity to explore the gaps and limits of human perception.

Chinese researchers have developed the first highly parallel optical computing integrated chip, named “Meteor-1”, setting a milestone for using light to perform an enormous number of ...

Researchers have shown, for the first time, that transmission of ultrastable optical signals from optical clocks across tens of kilometers of deployed multicore fiber is compatible with ...

Folio Photonics names Greg Kittilson as its VP of Engineering and announces a patent award for advancements in multi-layer optical disc storage.

So I'm experimenting with trying to depend less on streaming services. I got a Blu-ray USB drive. (It's can also burn Blu-ray, because I couldn't find a reputable play-only device.) Even though I ...

The phase and the group velocity of light propagating in conventional optical media cannot exceed the speed of light in vacuum. However, in so-called epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) materials, light ...

However, there's not yet an equivalent statement on Verbatim's English-language newsroom leaving optical media's future in other parts of the world looking a little unclear.

But fear not, data hoarders. Two companies have stepped up to reassure the Japanese market that they'll keep producing high-quality optical media: Verbatim and I-O Data.

These days, very few of us use optical media on the regular. If we do, it’s generally with a slot-loading console or car stereo, or an old-school tray-loader in a desktop or laptop. This has ...

Like with much of physical media, the onslaught against optical media is ongoing. In the latest hit against physical media fans, LG has discontinued its remaining Blu-ray players. However, this ...