Full 3-d invisibility cloak in visible light

Watching things disappear is an amazing experience. But making items vanish is not the reason scientists work to create invisibility cloaks. Rather, the magic-like tricks are attractive demonstrations of the fantastic capabilities that new optical theories and nanotechnology construction methods now enable.

'Light sheets' image life in 3d

A technique to image living cells in action, in an unprecedented mix of detail in both time and space, is described by researchers.