Like something straight out of science fiction, MIT researchers have created a way to manipulate tiny objects using a 'tractor beam' of light. The video shows individual cells being moved to spell out ...

A cloak of invisibility may be common in science fiction but it is not so easy in the real world. New research suggests such a device may be moving closer to reality. Scientists said on Thursday they ...

Light reflects off the cloak (red arrows) as if it were reflecting off a flat mirror in this 3D illustration of a metasurface skin cloak made from an ultrathin layer of nanoantennas (gold blocks) ...

WASHINGTON - A cloak of invisibility may be common in science fiction but it is not so easy in the real world. New research suggests such a device may be moving closer to reality. Scientists said on ...

Researchers have constructed an invisibility cloak capable of hiding a tiny object by altering the behavior of the light that hits it. This is the first invisibility cloak made out of sophisticated, ...

Nanoparticle research is huge. That is, the study of nanoparticles, very miniscule objects that act as a unit with specific properties, is a very popular area of study. With implications in many ...

Specialised lasers which spin delicate microscopic objects less than one hundredth the width of a human hair have been developed by Scottish researchers. The technique could be used to drive the ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in a new study have shown how a brain-inspired image sensor can go beyond the diffraction limit of light to detect miniscule objects such as ...

A $12 device that can measure the mass of microgram-sized objects in fluid has been developed by researchers in the US. The sensor is driven by a piezoelectric speaker and measures the change in the ...

Researchers have constructed an invisibility cloak capable of hiding a tiny object by altering the behavior of the light that hits it. This is the first invisibility cloak made out of sophisticated, ...