News tagged with cloak
Broadband invisibility in the microwave range
Sep 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the series Star Trek, Klingons and Romulans have spaceships outfitted with cloaking devices that hide their presence from sight, as well as from the sensors of their rivals' spaceships. Unlike current invisi ...
Light at the speed of a bicycle and much more
Sep 09, 2009 |
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The speed of light, 300 million metres per second, was long thought an immutable constant and has defined our understanding of matter and energy but recent research in the area of optics and photonics is proving ...
A New Cloaking Method: This is not a 'Star Trek' or 'Harry Potter' Story (w/ Video)
Aug 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Utah mathematicians developed a new cloaking method, and it's unlikely to lead to invisibility cloaks like those used by Harry Potter or Romulan spaceships in "Star Trek." Instead, ...
The guiding of light: A new metamaterial device steers beams along complex pathways
Jul 31, 2009 |
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Using a composite metamaterial to deliver a complex set of instructions to a beam of light, Boston College physicists have created a device to guide electromagnetic waves around objects such as the corner ...
Stripping leukemia-initiating cells of their 'invisibility cloak'
Jul 23, 2009 |
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Two new studies reveal a way to increase the body's appetite for gobbling up the cancer stem cells responsible for acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a form of cancer with a particularly poor survival rate. The key is targeting ...
'Invisibility cloak' could protect against earthquakes
Jul 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Research at the University of Liverpool has shown it is possible to develop an 'invisibility cloak' to protect buildings from earthquakes.
Transform a ball into a rock -- or make it invisible -- using transformation optics
Jul 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Science fiction and fantasy tales are full of the ability to "cloak" characters with invisibility. Whether it is a spaceship with a cloaking device, or a young wizard with an invisibility ...
Spanish scientists bring us closer to making the dream of invisibility true
Jul 07, 2009 |
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A group of researchers from the Department of Physics at UAB (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain) have designed a device, called a dc metamaterial, which makes objects invisible under certain light - ...
Invisibility Cloak Blurs Line Between Magic and Science (w/Video)
May 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The 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 will once ...
New invisibility cloak allows object to 'see' out through the cloak
Mar 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- "Many groups have been working devices that make objects invisible," Che Ting Chan tells PhysOrg.com. “Most of these devices, however, encompass the object to be cloaked.” Chan, a scientist at The Hong K ...
Scientists closer to making invisibility cloak a reality
Mar 05, 2009 |
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J.K. Rowling may not have realized just how close Harry Potter's invisibility cloak was to becoming a reality when she introduced it in the first book of her best-selling fictional series in 1998. Scientists, however, have ...
Researchers identify new region of the magnetosphere
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 12, 2008 |
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A detailed analysis of the measurements of five different satellites has revealed the existence of the warm plasma cloak, a new region of the magnetosphere, which is the invisible shield of magnetic fields ...
Tsunami Invisibility Cloak
Sep 26, 2008 |
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Rather than building stronger ocean-based structures to withstand tsunamis, it might be easier to simply make the structures disappear.
Invisibility undone: Chinese scientists demonstrate how to uncloak an invisible object
Sep 03, 2008 |
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Harry 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 Society's (OSA) open-access journal, certai ...
