NPR's Juana Summers talks with Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave about "scuba-diving" lizards, a trick to turn a mouse's skin transparent and whether finger counting helps kids' math skills.

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 ...

More than 100 years later, scientists have discovered a real-life version of the substance: A commonly used food coloring can make the skin of a mouse temporarily transparent, allowing scientists to ...

Seeing what’s going on inside a body is never easy. While technologies like CT scans, X-rays, MRIs, and microscopy can provide insights, the images are rarely completely clear and can come with side ...

Researchers have developed a reversible method to make the skin of juvenile mice transparent to visible light, enabling repeated imaging of the brain during early development. The technique, reported ...

Scientists discovered that the yellow dye in Cheetos can make mouse skin transparent. The dye, tartrazine, is commonly used in foods like Cheetos, Doritos, and Kool-Aid. The technique could have ...