Particles of twisted light that have been entangled using quantum mechanics offer a new approach to dense and secure data storage. Holograms that produce 3-D images and serve as security features on ...

Holograms. Practically every sci-fi movie and TV show from the last 50 years has some version of this futuristic technology. A realistic 3D object composed of nothing more than light, usually hovering ...

When Shawn Frayne was just a 10 year old in Orlando, Florida, his dad took him to see Back to the Future 2, which set the trajectory for his life-long passion to advance hologram technology. He was ...

Projecting three-dimensional images directly from a smartphone, without bulky headsets or projectors, could soon become reality. Researchers from the University of St Andrews have successfully ...

You may not be able to define “fractal” — yet — but fractals are, in fact, everywhere. As you might expect from hearing her title, Hayley Brazier, Donald M. Kerr curator of natural history at the High ...

The room is dark. There's a quiet whirr of fans. Nature sounds play from unseen speakers. One wall is decorated with what I assume is artificial greenery. In the center, a head. Blue and purple and ...

LizardTech will ship new versions of its Genuine Fractals line of image encoding software by the end of the month. The updates will be compatible with Mac OS X and Mac OS 9.2. The Genuine Fractals ...

You have almost certainly seen computer-generated fractals – beautiful, trippy images in which colourful, intricate structures repeat ad infinitum as you fall ever further down the rabbit hole.