Invisibility Cloak? This isn't Harry Potter is it?

Researchers at Duke University are coming close to creating an actual "invisibility cloak". Very small metamaterials have been designed that can bend microwaves around a three dimensional object. Recently, the wavelengths it can bend have been widely broadened, hopefully to reach our visible light spectrum in the near future. This may very well be the first step in the design of an actual "invisibility cloak". Don't be checking eBay quite yet, it still may be a while.

Life on Mars?

Recent studies of the planet Mars have had some surprising results. Large traces of Methane have been found in areas of the planet. This could be from one of two reasons.

1. Volcanic activity

2. Microbes

If it happens to be from reason two then we may have found the first traces of micro-lifeforms on any planet other than earth. Let's keep our fingers crossed.