Mantis shrimp are known to possess one of the most unusual and complex visual systems in the entire animal kingdom. Their ...

Netherlands-based EpoQ has won PhotonDelta’s 2026 Global Photonics Engineering Contest with a proposal to use integrated ...

Researchers have focused the attosecond pulses from the European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser (XFEL) through total-reflection optics to create record peak intensity ...

A landmark result five years ago showed that optogenetic therapy had partially restored the sight of a single patient with an ...

Hyperscale cloud providers are driving the demand for high-capacity optical connectivity as they expand their AI and data center infrastructure. In response, optical fiber manufacturer Lightera, USA, ...

Quantum networks that facilitate the transmission of information in the form of qubits are the basis of modern quantum technologies. Photons are used to transfer an excitation from one qubit to ...

Last year, researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, USA, manipulated the human eye to see a new color, which they called “olo” (see “A New Color Comes into View,” OPN, May 2025). Now, ...

Researchers at Kobe University in Japan have created a nanostructured coating that creates vivid, glossy colors on complex 3D surfaces (Small Struct., doi: 10.1002/sstr.70600). Designed for real-world ...

Researchers in China and Australia have created a purple fabric that incorporates a metal-organic framework (MOF) to keep people cooler in hot weather (Small, doi: 10.1002/smll.74745). While passive ...

Germany is establishing three national fusion-technology hubs designed to bring together research institutions and industry in an effort to accelerate development of commercial fusion power. The ...

Researchers in China have engineered a lightweight receiver that can be fitted to a drone to convert laser light into usable power (Matter & Light, doi: 10.1016/j.matlit.2026.100066). With a ...