Cosmic dioramas

Metamaterials may offer windows into other worlds

Move over Harry Potter, and take your invisibility cloak with you. Alice’s looking glass may be the latest bit of literary magic worthy of physics laboratories.

If many universes exist, metamaterials may offer a way to study the properties of such spaces in the laboratory. Nicolle Rager Fuller
From afar, an ant on a hose seems able to move in only one dimension.