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It’s not quite the invisibility cloak from Harry Potter, but we’re getting there. The material, dubbed Quantum Stealth, has been developed by Hyperstealth which is a “Canadian camouflage design company”. The “invisible” material is as thin as paper, inexpensive, and requires no power source. While it doesn’t work quite as well as the magical cloak…
Experts have warned that people should not make health decisions based on genetic tests they do at home. Scientists at the University of Southampton team warn results can be unreliable. The geneticists said the tests could be wrongly reassuring, or lead to unnecessary worry. 23andMe is one of the companies offering such tests, and said…
In the 1970s, NASA sent the two Viking landers to Mars, during the Viking program. The trip to the Red Planet gave scientists a better understanding of Mars, and also delivered some surprising results. One experiment gave the first possible hint that we’d detected traces of life on Mars. Back then the evidence was found…
Health officials have launched an investigation after three babies were born with rare hand deformations in the last four months in Germany. “Between June 2019 and the beginning of September 2019, a total of three children with isolated one-sided malformations were born in the Obstetric Department of St. Mary’s Hospital Buer,” wrote the hospital in…
When it comes to drink driving, its as simple as taking a breathalyser test to detect whether someone is under the influence. But when it comes to drugs, such as marijuana for example, things aren’t as simple. That’ why scientists at the University of Pittsburgh have developed a breathalyser, that can tell if a person…
A mysterious spacecraft has been orbiting the Earth for the past 720 days, and only the US Air Force knows why… This is the fifth mission of the uncrewed and solar-powered x-37b space plane. The Orbital Test Vehicle 5 mission launched way back in September of 2017, with the help of a SpaceX Falcon 9…
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