Invisibility cloaks large enough to be “seen” by the human eye possible thanks to the birefringent nature of calcite crystals

Axel Schulz, Annie Powell, Takeshi Kawase, and Nobuharu Iwasawa, are interviewed this month

New material specially designed for use in plastic solar cells brings low-cost solar electricity a step closer

R&D plant at Sandwich, UK, will close with the loss of 2,400 jobs

Efficient generation of H2 with Pt nanoparticles depends on their size, shape and the rate of Pt–H bond formation

Image sensors in cell phones are partially color-blind so not suitable for spectroscopy – this may change with new transparent coating

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will continue to collect data at 3.5 TeV until the end of 2012

Mimicking nature is leading to some creative and green ways to synthesize organic substrates

Tetrametallic azamacrocycles: a new type of metallomacrocycles with pendant metal fragments

New transistor for plastic electronics exhibits the best of both worlds: high stability and good conduction