News articles tagged with 'invisibility'
Now you see it, now you don't
— 22 Jul 2010 11:05 | TechnologyFrom Tolkien's ring of power in The Lord of the Rings to Star Trek's Romulans, who could make their warships disappear from view, from Harry Potter's magical cloak to the garment that…
Discovery at UAB brings us nearer to making the dream of invisibility true
— 7 Jul 2009 17:58 | TechnologyA group of researchers from the Department of Physics at UAB have designed a device, called a dc metamaterial, which makes objects invisible under certain light - very low frequency…
Berkeley researchers create an 'invisibility cloak'
— 2 May 2009 19:30 | TechnologyThe great science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke famously noted the similarities between advanced technology and magic. This summer on the big screen, the young wizard Harry Potter…
Using invisibility to increase visibility
— 27 Nov 2008 11:20 | PhysicsResearch into the development of invisibility devices has spurred two physicists' thought on the behaviour of light to overcome the seemingly intractable problem of optical singularities…
Scientists develop a new technique that allows certain objects to be invisible
— 12 Sep 2008 19:40 | TechnologyA research group of the Departments of Applied Physics and Electromagnetism of the University of Granada(Spain), directed by Professors Jorge Andres Porti, Alfonso Salinas and Juan…
Chinese scientists demonstrate how to uncloak an invisible object
— 5 Sep 2008 15:20 | PhysicsHarry Potter beware! A team of Chinese scientists has developed a way to unmask your invisibility cloak. According to a new paper in the latest issue of Optics Express, the Optical…
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