Physics is beautiful in its ideas and in the people who pursue them across borders. What better, then, than for 16 laboratories across Asia, Europe and North America to throw open their doors for a ...

Contact lenses get pretty thin nowadays, but they’ve got nothing on a new lens from scientists at Stanford and the University of Amsterdam. The team has created the world’s thinnest lens, measuring ...

Researchers in Israel have made a new type of contact lens that can correct a form of red–green colour blindness known as deuteranomaly. By incorporating plasmonic metasurfaces into standard contact ...

A soft, smart contact lens worn by a volunteer (left) and undergoing heat tests during operation (right). (Courtesy: Jang-Ung Park, Yonsei University) Flexible contact lenses that incorporate ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece is part of a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. In 1999, I defined ...