PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Without light, we can't have sight. We see objects because of how light interacts with those objects, our eyes pick up that light, and our brains interpret it. This seems rather ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A B-2 stealth bomber takes off from Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, Nevada. In addition to using anti-reflective paint to ...

The story goes like this: During World War II, the Navy was experimenting with making a cannon-class destroyer escort invisible. The tale focuses on two occasions: Once, the USS Eldridge was rendered ...

Rather than building stronger ocean-based structures to withstand tsunamis, it might be easier to simply make the structures disappear. A collaboration of physicists from the Centre National de la ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Storm Team 4’s meteorologist Liz McGiffin met up with Kelli Kinzig, manager of Education Experiences at COSI, to talk about the Marvel Exhibit. A superpower many people want to ...

There’s a well-known story in Plato’s Republic in which a humble shepherd named Gyges finds a magical gold ring that renders whoever wears it invisible. Gyges proceeds to use his newfound power to ...

A US Navy Ship vanishes during a secret World War II Experiment gone awry When it reappears observers are horrified to see crew members embedded in the deck and steel of the ship During a sea trial ...

For decades, stories about invisible warships have captured public imagination. One of the most famous is the so-called Philadelphia Experiment of 1943, a legend that claims the US Navy made a ship ...

Physicists at the Australian National University have developed the most sensitive method ever for measuring the potential energy of an atom (within a hundredth of a decillionth of a joule – or 10-35 ...