Scientists have designed an ultra-miniaturized device that could directly image single cells without the need for a microscope or make chemical fingerprint analysis possible from a smartphone.

Newton’s experiment remains almost insultingly simple. Sunlight, a darkened room, a glass prism. The conclusion was unavoidable. Colour belonged to light itself. The prism merely made it visible.

Having trained under Issey Miyake and Shiro Kuramata, Tokujin Yoshioka has since designed for a wide range of genres, creating minimalist cell phones, transparent watches, unusual interior displays, ...

A GLASS prism, said to have been the property of Isaac Newton, is on exhibition in the British Museum, Medieval Collections Room, Bay XVI. It was presented in 1927 by the Rev. H. T. Inman of Grantham, ...