News tagged with funhouse mirror

Can you see me now? Flexible photodetectors could help sharpen photos

(PhysOrg.com) -- Distorted cell-phone photos and big, clunky telephoto lenses could be things of the past. UW-Madison Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor Zhenqiang (Jack) Ma and colleagues ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Gravitational lens reveals details of distant, ancient galaxy

Thanks to the presence of a natural "zoom lens" in space, University of Chicago scientists working with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a uniquely close-up look at the brightest gravitationally ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (21) | comments 29 | with audio podcast