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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

Ultrathin 'invisibility cloak' can match any background

In the movie "Predator," an alien uses a cloaking device to hide in plain sight, but the effect is far from perfect: The alien's attempt to conceal itself is thwarted by distortions of light bending around it.

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

Scientists look to re-animate ancient, giant 'Frankenvirus' found in Siberia

It’s alive! Or that’s what scientists might say when they reanimate the so-called “frankenvirus,” a 30,000-year-old giant virus that was discovered in Siberia. The French researchers behind the find – published this week in PNAS, the journal from the U.S. National Academy of Sciences – warn that climate change could reawaken dangerous microscopic pathogens, reports Agence France-Presse.

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

Italian cemetery could preserve cholera DNA

An Italian church graveyard could preserve more than bodies: Researchers are searching the cemetery for the DNA of ancient strains of cholera

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.