Professor Snape beware — invisibility cloaks aren’t just for the microscopic anymore.
NOW YOU SEE ‘EM A piece of pink paper vanishes under a new invisibility cloak developed by MIT researchers. Baile Zhang and G. Barbastathis/SMART Centre
Using natural crystals, two independent research teams have designed “carpet cloaks” that can abracadabra 3-D objects as big as an ant or a grain of sand seemingly into nothing.
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