Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. In this way, and almost by chance, researchers at TU Wien developed a novel microscopy technique that allows the refractive index of ...

Among the various sensing modalities available for bioprocess operations, index of refraction (IoR) is intriguing for its simplicity and capability for sample-less, real-time readout. A group led by ...

Scientists have demonstrated that negative refraction can be achieved using atomic arrays -- without the need for artificially manufactured metamaterials. Scientists have long sought to control light ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Topics covered in this episode include what cataract surgeons can learn from the refraction process, how they ...

The original goal was to investigate biological samples on a molecular scale – but this soon led to stubborn technical problems. Eventually, however, the researchers realized that the very source of ...

The Brix scale, derived from the refractive index of a solution at 20 degrees Celsius (68 Fahrenheit), is widely known. Originally, it was established by determining the weight percentage of sucrose ...

Toyohashi University of Technology researchers in collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), have developed a new material capable of retaining high transmissivity after thermal ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . It would seem logical that emmetropia is the ideal refractive state of the eye. Emmetropia puts far away objects ...