Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You perceive electromagnetic radiation in the form of light in all the colors of the rainbow. MirageC/Movement via Getty Images ...

a) Illustration of the omnidirectional wavelength-tunable color device featuring a mechanochromic chiral liquid crystal elastomer (CLCE) and an electrically deformable dielectric elastomer actuator ...

Scientists have used a new lens to focus all the colors of the rainbow into one point. This is the first time a single lens has been used to focus the entire spectrum of light, including white light.