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 ...

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A University of York study suggests light passing through dense dark matter may pick up a faint red or blue tint.

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Can AI truly improve your life? As our Try AI column turns one, we look back to find that one of our writers is less trusting than ever, while the other insists that the future has arrived.

A team of physicists from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, the Center for New Technologies at the ...

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Discover the fascinating world of free energy with our latest experiment focusing on light bulbs! In this intriguing video, ...

NASA launched an exoplanet-hunting experiment Oct. 1 despite the government shutdown. After the mission's end on Oct. 2, news ...

Dermatologists explain the science behind wildly popular treatments like red light therapy, which is now available at home—for a steep price. Full-face LED masks like this one can cost up to several ...

Physicists in Toronto observe quantum “negative time”: a pulse of light appears to leave before entering atoms.