The world's first true invisibility cloak - a device able to hide an object in the visible spectrum - has been created by physicists in the US. But don't expect it to compete with stage magic tricks. So far it only works in two dimensions and on a tiny scale.
How many of these types of inventions have we seen, though? Snoring, the bane of wives (as most snorers are male), is one of those things most have learned to live with. Still, if you could stop it, who wouldn't? The thing is, this is just a prototype, and who knows how much it'll cost!
Lubrication oil appears to be an important yet little-recognized source of toxic particle emissions from motor vehicles -- even those fueled by clean-burning hydrogen.
This story first appeared on NPR way back in February, when they compared the noise levels of a Prius with a standard car --- and you could actually hear the difference. It's reached the mainstream media now, and although NPR ran a test with one person, the U.S. National Federation of the Blind's Committee on Automotive and Pedestrian Safety ran a larger, though admittedly just as unscientific one.
Verizon Wireless on Wednesday unveiled four new mobile phones for the 2007 holiday season, and it hopes that one of them is cool enough to shift the spotlight away from Apple's iPhone.
The newest dinosaur species to emerge from Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument had some serious bite, according to researchers from the Utah Museum of Natural History at the University of Utah.
Einstein's Theory Of General Relativity has been under assault for the better part of a century. No one can really prove it wrong but it's commonly assumed to be wrong.
