Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Since ancient times, people have experimented with light, cherishing shiny metals like gold and cutting gemstones to brighten ...

Scientists have demonstrated that negative refraction can be achieved using atomic arrays -- without the need for artificially manufactured metamaterials. Scientists have long sought to control light ...

Although the concept of negative-index materials (NIMs) has existed for several decades, actual metamaterials with these properties were not fabricated until recently 1,2,3. The original proposal and ...

If invisibility cloaks and other gee-whiz apps are ever to move from science fiction to science fact, we'll need to know more about how these weird metamaterials actually work. Michigan Tech ...

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Invisibility used to be the stuff of comic books and Harry Potter novels. But this week, scientists from UC Berkeley have emerged with two new invisibility-producing “metamaterials,” engineered ...

Gbur (Falling Felines and Fundamental Physics), a physics professor at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, surveys in this entertaining primer the state of research into literal invisibility.

If invisibility cloaks and other gee-whiz apps are ever to move from science fiction to science fact, we’ll need to know more about how these weird metamaterials actually work. Michigan Tech ...

Since ancient times, people have experimented with light, cherishing shiny metals like gold and cutting gemstones to brighten their sparkles. Today we are far more advanced in how we work with this ...

Metamaterials offer the very real possibility that our most far-fetched fancies could one day become real as rocks. From invisibility cloaks and perfect lenses to immensely powerful batteries, their ...

Since ancient times, people have experimented with light, cherishing shiny metals like gold and cutting gemstones to brighten their sparkles. Today we are far more advanced in how we work with this ...