Light travels in straight lines and will keep going until it is blocked by an opaque object We are surrounded by sources of light. The Sun is our main source of natural light but we also get light ...

A MYSTERIOUS object 500million light years away has baffled scientists after transmitting signals that hit Earth every 16 days. Scientists do not know what is causing the phenomenon, but it is being ...

The mysterious interstellar object hurtling through our solar system has just given scientists more evidence that it may be a craft from another part of the galaxy. According to Harvard astrophysicist ...

Investigate where light comes from and where it goes with activities looking at its effects on objects, in our science series by Pat Brunton and Linda Thornton We experience light and shadow in our ...

Scientists have found a way to make solid objects ‘invisible’ in a strange way – by having light waves pass through opaque materials as if they were not there at all. The reason that objects are ...

Imagine a cube flying through space at nearly the speed of light. Hard to picture? Not for the physicists at the Vienna University of Technology, who have managed to simulate exactly that in their lab ...

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From Star Trek to Harry Potter, invisibility cloaks have been a popular feature in science fiction blockbusters for years. Now, the futuristic technology has become a reality with the development of a ...