New holotomography measurements reveal that the tuneable optical properties of these cephalopods come from winding columns of platelets in iridescent cells
Read article: Squid use Bragg reflectors in their skin to change colour
New work could help in the development of materials that host exotic coherent quantum states under ambient conditions
Read article: Soliton structure protects superfluorescence
Theoretical proposal suggests a way of eliminating backaction noise in nanoparticles levitated with light
Read article: Quantum effect could tame noisy nanoparticles by rendering them invisible
Complex photon-photon interactions make a beam of light behave like a solid object
Read article: Laser beam casts a shadow in a ruby crystal
Inexpensive metasurface could revolutionize the capabilities of conventional imaging systems
Read article: Metasurface-enhanced camera performs hyperspectral and polarimetric imaging
Technique gives greater control and flexibility over entanglement
Read article: Liquid crystals generate entangled photon pairs
New method might find applications in biomedicine
Read article: Metasurfaces make a single-shot polarization imaging system
New design produces an order of magnitude improvement in single-photon coherence time
Read article: Novel superconducting cavity qubit pushes the limits of quantum coherence
Nonlinear optics could hold the key to efficient, quantum-secure data transmission, but not everyone is persuaded
Read article: New protocol transmits quantum information in complex states of light
New technique can measure the elasticity of several eye components at the same time
Read article: Multi-eye-component imaging could help diagnose ocular disease
