Researchers announced today that they've built the world's first invisibility cloak, although the fine print may disappoint science-fiction fans. ... "The concept that you can cloak something and make something invisible can now be demonstrated by this method," said Duke University physicist David R. Smith.
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Whether you're a Harry Potter fan or a mere fourth-level mage in a game of "Dungeons and Dragons," you're probably familiar with the concept of an invisibility cloak. Slip this magical garment over your head and, in the eyes of all onlookers, vanish. ... How can you make water invisible?;
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The invisible material is made of thousands of tiny beads ... Susumu Tachi, who showed off the cloak at an exhibition in San Francisco earlier this month, said he was hopeful of providing a way to provide a view of the outside in windowless rooms.
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Polar fountains fill magnetosphere with ions ... December 9, 1997 ... Since the late 1950s and '60s, scientists have believed that the Earth's magnetic field has captured a lot of the solar wind - charged particles flowing out from the sun - and formed an immense, comet-like cloud of electrified gas that surrounds our planet.
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In an engineering breakthrough that is still to be seen, scientists have unveiled a blueprint to make an invisibility cloak, ... All light or other electromagnetic waves would be steered around the object, making it invisible, said study author David Smith, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke...
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THE INVISIBLE MAN ... Harry Potter isn't the only academic with an invisibility cloak. A professor at the University of Tokyo has created an optical camouflage system that makes anyone wearing a special reflective material seem to disappear.
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"Yes, you could actually make someone invisible as long as someone wears a cloak made of this material,'' said Patanjali Parimi, a Northeastern University physicist and design engineer at Chelton Microwave Corp. in Bolton, Mass.
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Jan. 15, 2009 -- An invisibility cloak for visible light could be made within six months, say scientists from Duke University, who, in a new paper published today in Science, ... ; Invisible Carpet Idea Close to Actual Invisibility ; How Stuff Works: Invisibility Cloak; Get Discovery's Latest in Science and Tech News;
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Light striking an object covered with the carpet cloak acts as if there were no object being concealed on the flat surface. In essence, the object has become invisible.
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