They can't match Harry Potter yet, but scientists are moving closer to creating a real cloak of invisibility.
... ) -- From Grimm's fairy tales to Harry Potter, the cloak of invisibility has played a major role in fiction. Now scientists have taken a small but important new ...
Scientists are getting much closer to achieving a perfect "cloak of invisibility," this time using a diamond-shaped device to help clean up some of the loose ends from previous attempts.
... say they have come up with a new concept for a two-dimensional cloak of invisibility that would be much easier to make ... year in rudimentary form. This, however, is not the kind of cloaking device the military might be interested in: When viewed ...
... may usher in a host of radical advances including a cloak of invisibility and ultra-powerful microscopes and computers ... Engineering. The list of possible breakthroughs includes a cloak of invisibility; computers and consumer electronics that use light ...
... schemes. They acknowledge practical optical cloaking for invisibility is many years away. Experiments so far ... wavelengths, only microscopic objects could be made invisible by the new method. "The cloaking device would have to generate ...
A team of researchers at the FOM institute AMOLF (The Netherlands) has succeeded for the first time in powering an energy transfer between nano-electromagnets with the magnetic field of light.
... ultra-powerful microscopes and computers and a possible invisibility cloak. The metamaterials have been plagued by a major limitation ... instead of electronic signals to process information; and a cloak of invisibility. Excitement about metamaterials has been tempered by the fact ...
... and computers, improved solar cells, and a possible invisibility cloak. The new materials could make possible ... instead of electronic signals to process information; and a cloak of invisibility. Optical nanophotonic circuits might ...
... College London describe a new type of invisibility cloak that does not just hide objects ... are not satisfied and are still searching for the holy grail – a cloak of invisibility that can hide macroscale objects from view ...
The first detailed study of the rare splendid lantern shark reveals that not only does it glow in the dark, but the light effects create a "cloak of invisibility" that helps shield it from predators.
New research shows that two species of cephalopod — a Japetella octopus and an Onychoteuthis squid — have evolved the ability to switch rapidly between two disguises.
Scientists have found one of the molecules that help malaria parasites put on an invisibility cloak and hide from the immune system.
... new concept known as plasmonic cloaking to render the device invisible. The field of plasmonics studies ... drops by 100 times due to the cloaking effect, becoming invisible." "It seems counterintuitive," said Brongersma ...
Improving Wikipedia entries for notable women scientists should be only the start for a higher profile for women in science, says Athene Donald.Nature 490 447 doi: 10.1038/490447a
