Biophysicists have known for a long time that polar-bear fur and other biological materials with an ordered microstructure can guide light, but this has always been assumed to be because of ...

AT A CLINIC at the University of California, San Francisco, dentists in training hone their "drill-and-fill" skills for treating patients with cavities. But in a lab across the hall from the clinic, a ...

It's the reason television news anchors shouldn't wear striped ties and checked shirts: the moiré effect. And it's the driving force behind a new laser measurement technique that could help develop ...

Researchers in Germany believe that the ability of some biomaterials to guide light is due to light scattering, and not fiber-optic effects as previously thought. Biophysicists have known for a long ...