May 2, 2016 Thermal 'invisibility cloak' could keep people cool A new thermal "invisibility cloak" that channels heat around whatever it is trying to hide may one day help keep people and satellites cool, researchers say
May 2, 2016 Stunning 7-mile scale model of the solar system created in Nevada A group of friends has created a stunning 7-mile scale model of the solar system on a dry lakebed in Nevada.
May 2, 2016 First magnetic wormhole created in lab Researchers in Spain have created the first–ever magnetic wormhole in a lab. The specially designed sphere is capable of transferring a magnetic field from one location to another via a process that is magnetically undetectable and only visible by light.
May 2, 2016 What your brain really sees when it looks at ‘the dress’: A neuroscientist explains It’s the question on everyone’s lips – just what color is that dress? White and gold or blue and black? Well, we know what Kim Kardashian thinks. Now it’s science’s turn to enter the Internet battle raging over the actual color of a 21-year old Scottish woman’s dress.
May 2, 2016 Be my biological Valentine: Do microbes define physical attraction? Roses are red, violets are blue, and your microbiome makes me love you. Does it really? Well, according to one researcher, it does.
May 2, 2016 Study: Global warming skeptics know more about climate science Are global warming skeptics simply ignorant about climate science? Not so, says a forthcoming paper in the journal Advances in Political Psychology by Yale professor Dan Kahan. He finds that skeptics score about the same (in fact slightly better) on climate science questions.
May 2, 2016 New York dodges blizzard bullet, but weather models under scrutiny The record snow storm that was expected to pummel the Northeast on Tuesday failed to live up to its epic billing in the New York/New Jersey region — though it did hammer much of New England — putting the weather models used to predict the blizzard into question.
May 2, 2016 CU-Boulder pitches telescope that could image at higher-res than Hubble It looks like the Hubble Space Telescope could have some competition. Researchers at the University of Colorado will update NASA this week on the Aragoscope, their space telescope concept that could potentially provide images that are up to 1,000 times sharper than those from Hubble, according to a CU-Boulder press release.
May 2, 2016 Ever wake up and think you see a ghost? Here's what's happening It was an ordinary night, but Salma, a 20-year-old student at The American University in Cairo, had a particularly frightening experience.
April 28, 2016 Trump's broken speech appeals to the masses When Donald Trump talks, he doesn't sound like an ordinary presidential candidate.
