A new study reveals a beautiful spectrum of hidden skin "tones." — -- You’ll rarely see a healthy person with blue or green skin, unless you’re looking at them under invisible light. Scientists ...

The universe has many faces. With a naked eye, we can spot the gold, white, and brassy hues of stars and other objects from our vantage point on Earth. But visible light illuminates just a fraction of ...

Human bodies are not quite as dark as they look. A growing body of research suggests that living tissue constantly releases ...

In November, 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen made an unusual discovery: He’d taken a glass vacuum tube, through which he’d run a high voltage currency, and covered it in black cardboard so none of its light ...

Researchers have solved a major problem for optical wireless communications - the process by which light carries information between cell phones and other devices. Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) pulse ...

A scientific breakthrough could soon provide night vision without bulky equipment. Researchers have developed contact lenses capable of converting infrared light into visible images, even with closed ...

A galaxy seems like a hard thing to miss – let alone 39 of them – but that's exactly what a team of astronomers has just discovered. So where have these countless stars been hiding? About 11.5 billion ...

Saulius Juodkazis receives funding from ARC. He is a senior nanotechnology fellow at the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication, 151 Wellington Road, Clayton, VIC 3168, Australia. Imagine setting up ...