X-Ray specs and invisibility cloaks are the stuff of sci-fi and fantasy, but sometimes science is just stranger than fiction. A food dye that helps give certain sodas and snacks their hallmark orange ...

Researchers used a yellow food dye used on tortilla chips—specifically, yellow no. 5 food dye otherwise known as tartrazine— to turn the skin of mice transparent. (Photo: Getty) Let’s be completely ...

In H.G. Wells’ 1897 science fiction novel, “The Invisible Man,” the protagonist invents a serum that makes the cells in his body transparent by controlling how they bend light. More than 100 years ...

(CNN) — In H.G. Wells’ 1897 science fiction novel, “The Invisible Man,” the protagonist invents a serum that makes the cells in his body transparent by controlling how they bend light. More than 100 ...

Doritos are a revered snack for many. Now, scientists have found one of the ingredients in the triangle-shaped tasty tortilla chips has a superpower – it can make the skin of mice transparent.

Transparent bodies of animals are seldom seen in the wild. There are glassfrogs and ghost shrimps in the list. However, there's a way to make a non-transparent body become "see-through" using a common ...

A new study has detailed how mice skin can be turned transparent to see inside their bodies while they are still alive. The new procedure doesn't harm the animals and involves the use of food dye that ...