Rubbing an E-number found in the orange food dye used in Doritos, the tortilla snack, can turn the skin invisible, scientists have found. A chemical called tartrazine, also known as FD&C Yellow #5 and ...

Scientists are warning that a microscopic predator is quietly exploiting the world’s warming and aging water systems, ...

Roughly 2,000 miles south of New Zealand's southernmost point lies Lake Enigma, an aptly named body of water tucked into coastal Antarctica. The lake's ice cover is deeper than the lake itself: ...

Harry Potter’s iconic “Invisibility Cloak” could perhaps be within our sight. Chinese scientists have devised a camouflage material that adjusts its molecular composition to blend into the background, ...

Churning nano-wormholes could explain the clash in our cosmological constants. The wormholes add magnitude to a math parameter called the Gauss-Bonnet term. Boosting one term in a complex equation ...

The universe looks bright and familiar when we look up at the night sky. We see stars, planets, galaxies, and glowing clouds ...

Scientists in China have created a new camouflaging material that changes colour in response to its surroundings, an advance they say may help develop clothing to make one “effectively invisible”.