A popular food dye in Cheetos turned the skin of live mice transparent, revealing their working innards.

One of the difficulties when trying to image biological tissue using optical techniques is that tissue scatters light, which ...

Additionally, a team at MIT is exploring transparent solar cell technology using organic materials that absorb infrared and ultraviolet light while allowing visible light to pass through.

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The key to tissue clearing lies in changing the way light passes through tissue. Tissue is usually not transparent because light moves through water, lipids, and proteins — the three main ...

Our bodies, like those of most mammals, aren't transparent mainly because of how light interacts with our tissues. Normally, light travels in a straight line through the air. But when light hits ...

It’s a strange occurrence, seeing a mouse’s skin turn transparent as you rub food dye ... makes mice see-through in a way similar to how light interacts with carbonated or fizzy water.

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Well, it’s all about the optics. Transparent things such as glass are see-through because light can pass right through them without being bent. Putting substances like frosting on glass can make ...

"Optical equipment, like the microscope, is not directly used to study live humans or animals because light can't go through living tissue," Ou said. "But now that we can make tissue transparent ...

The researchers speculated that adding a dye that strongly absorbs light to such tissues could narrow the gap between the components’ refractive indices enough to make them transparent.