A pixel is worth a thousand words? Not exactly how the saying goes, but in this case, it holds true: scientists at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry have pioneered a new chemical mapping…
In a step toward more efficient, smaller and higher-definition display screens, a University of Michigan professor has developed a new type of colour filter made of nano-thin sheets…
Conventional wisdom holds that optical microscopy can't be used to 'see' something as small as an individual molecule. But as it is wont, clever science has once again overturned conventional…
Every picture tells a story, but how do you know that a digital photo has not been manipulated to change the tale being told? A new approach to adding an encrypted watermark to digital…
Scientists funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and the British Heart Foundation at the University of Oxford have developed a revolutionary way of capturing…
Errant pixels and blurry regions in a photo, whether digital or scanned, are the bane of photographers everywhere. Moreover, in vision processing research degraded photos are common…