Explore the science of cloaking as light bends around objects, making them vanish before your eyes. This experiment demonstrates how materials can render things almost invisible in real life!

F EW PEOPLE enjoy the gloom that comes with winter in the world’s higher latitudes. In up to a tenth of the population, the ...

Physicists have tried so many different ways to find dark matter, but none have been successful. Now an unexpected contender ...

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For the first time, physicists have simulated what objects moving near the speed of light would look like — an optical ...

Scientists have developed an ultra-thin, paper-like LED that emits a warm, sunlike glow, promising to revolutionize how we light up our homes, devices, and workplaces. By engineering a balance of red, ...

Flashes of microlightning between microscopic bubbles of methane in water may ignite the eerie blue flames of will-o’-the wisps, new research suggests.

We could see a mass extinction event, an existential threat to multicellular life as we know it. Effective biocontainment, ...

Researchers report in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces that they have created a paper-thin LED that gives off a warm, ...

They form a detailed description of a prolonged and intensive research into the origin of malignant new growths, and they may ...