The subject of metamaterials is mad science at its finest 鈥� researchers trying to create materials with properties that don鈥檛 exist in nature, and that cannot be made with ordinary atoms.
Recent research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has demonstrated that thin films made of 鈥渕etamaterials鈥濃�攎anmade composites engineered to offer strange combinations of electromagnetic properties鈥攃an ...
Carnegie Mellon University鈥檚 Michael Bockstaller and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski have created a version of Harry Potter鈥檚 famed 鈥渋nvisibility cloak鈥� for nanoparticles.
Naval warships might look like all-powerful vessels but they are also highly vulnerable to being spotted by the enemy. That fear of being detected has led the military to develop new stealth technologies that allow ships ...
Scientists at the University of York have characterised an important new step in the mechanism used by bacteria to evade our immune system.
Using nanotechnology, scientists from UCLA and Northwestern University have developed a localized and controlled drug delivery method that is invisible to the immune system, a discovery that could provide newer and more effective ...
Contrary to earlier predictions, Duke University engineers have found that a three-dimensional sound cloak is possible, at least in theory.
Harry Potter may not have talked much about plasmonics in J. K. Rowling's fantasy series, but University of Maryland researchers are using this emerging technology to develop an invisibility cloak that exists beyond the world ...
The team of mathematicians that first created the mathematics behind the "invisibility cloak" announced by physicists last October has now shown that the same technology could be used to generate an "electromagnetic wormhole."
While we are a long way off from the lightweight, high-performance, magical cloak of Harry Potter, Muggle physicists have been busy designing ways to make invisibility possible.
