'Harry Potter' cloaks: Quest for invisibility not all fantasy
Thursday, December 26, 2013 - 17:00
in Physics & Chemistry
SINGAPORE — A new way of assembling things, called metamaterials, may in the not too distant future help to protect a building from earthquakes by bending seismic waves around it. Similarly, tsunami waves could be bent around towns, and soundwaves bent around a room to make it soundproof.