Light's shadow: Researchers showed that a laser beam can sometimes act like a solid object and cast a shadow that is visible to the naked eye. In the picture, the shadow appears as the horizontal line ...

In the experiment, a high-power green laser passed through a ruby cube, illuminated from the side by a blue laser. The green laser increased the ruby’s absorption of the blue light, creating a darker ...

A Flat Earth Society member is planning to build a rocket to see for himself that the world is not round. There are easier ways to determine the Earth's shape without leaving the atmosphere. The ...

Researchers can reconstruct a scene that's hidden from a camera's line of sight. This is an Inside Science story. Shadows are everywhere. Some may look like formless blobs, but researchers are now ...

Could 2,000 years of belief be wrong? Are we in fact living on a disc rather than a globe? One believer from the Flat Earth Society is determined to find out. 'Mad' Mike Hughes is all set to build his ...