For nearly 20 years, physicists and engineers have chased the idea of invisibility. Early efforts focused on hiding objects from light using so-called metamaterials with extreme and often unrealistic ...

Janet Fish, who died on 11 December at her home in Wells, Vermont, aged 87, stated, "I never bought the argument that ...

A new adaptive metaskin hides objects from thermal cameras in both hot and cold environments, automatically adjusting its ...

For decades, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way was an invisible monster, betrayed only by the way ...

The prototype uses a Canon EOS R10 with a Dual Pixel CMOS sensor, which allows every pixel to participate in phase detection.

Located south of Bend’s outdoor playland, I visited this Pacific Northwest gem for an enchanted winter evening of ...

A strange, starless cloud on the edge of a nearby galaxy is forcing astronomers to confront one of the biggest unknowns in ...

Scientists grow ultra-uniform perovskite nanocrystals at room temperature, boosting yields and brighter light for future ...

Researchers have created microscopic robots so small they’re barely visible, yet smart enough to sense, decide, and move completely on their own. Powered by light and equipped with tiny computers, the ...

A lucky alignment of space- and ground-based telescopes has enabled researchers to nail down the mass of a rogue planet for the first time. Unlike worlds in our Solar System, rogue planets do not ...

Scientists have built microscopic, light-powered robots that can think, swim, and operate independently at the scale of ...

Astronomers have just confirmed for the first time the existence of a "rogue planet"—a world drifting in space without being ...