Over a year ago, a new camera stunned the world with its ability to snap 10 trillion frames per second. That speed made it possible to watch light move in slow motion. But for all its speed, the ...

A strange, starless cloud on the edge of a nearby galaxy is forcing astronomers to confront one of the biggest unknowns in physics. The object, nicknamed Cloud‑9, looks like a wisp of hydrogen gas, ...

Astronomers have recently uncovered a colossal dark object outside our Solar System that defies direct observation. This enigmatic entity, with a mass equivalent to a million suns, challenges existing ...

Throughout history, people have grappled with imagining and defining “invisible” objects — from microscopic organisms to the cosmos and our galaxy. Two new courses, STS 1700F: “Visualizing the ...

Researchers at the National University of Singapore have built a beam of darkness that can make objects invisible from a long distance away. This isn't the plot from some not-so-distant sci-fi movie: ...

Scientists in Japan say they have developed a new approach – dubbed 'HEAPGrasp' – that improves robots' grasping success rate for transparent and shiny objects, beyond reducing handling time, using ...

The theorists who first created the mathematics that describe the behavior of the recently announced “invisibility cloak” have revealed a new analysis that may extend the current cloak’s powers, ...