Making waves: In the hunt for invisibility, other benefits seen
Wednesday, December 25, 2013 - 16:30
in Physics & Chemistry
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - 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.