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INVISIBILITY SERUM Zihao Ou, a physicist at the University of Texas at Dallas, and his colleagues have published a paper that describes a technique to make the skin of mice transparent using a mixture of water and tartrazine, a common yellow food colouring frequently used in crisps, candy coating, ice cream and baked goods. “For those who understand the fundamental physics behind this, it makes sense; but if you aren’t familiar with it, it looks like a magic trick,” said Ou. “We combined the yellow dye, which is a molecule that absorbs most light, especially blue and ultraviolet light, with skin, which is a scattering medium,” he explained. “Individually, these two things block most light from getting through them but when we put them together, we were able to achieve…

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