With a silicone rubber "stick-on" sheet containing dozens of miniature, powerful lenses, engineers are one step closer to putting the capacity of a large laboratory into a micro-sized package. The ...

Let’s say you want to see whether conditions on the planet Mars are ripe for life. Or maybe you’d like to find individual cells in a patient’s bloodstream to see how diseases cause damage. Or perhaps ...

In the Environmental Optics Laboratory (EOL) we perform research to reduce uncertainties by developing new measurement and analytical methods. Several graduate and undergraduate students participate ...

Barbara Jean stands outside Strickland Optical Lab, the business she and her husband created 30 years ago. P-J photo by Jordan W. Patterson For 30 years, Strickland Optical Lab has been seeing ...

HOUGHTON -- Just as open-source design has driven down the cost of software to the point that it is accessible to anyone with an Internet connection, open-source designs and 3D printing are driving ...

Bill Harding learned his way around a prescription eyeglass lab in the 1970s as a low-ranking laborer. Today, he walks the floor of his own lab in Greenwood, LensTech Optical, the largest ...