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Invisibility cloak yet another step closer to reality

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Look out, Harry Potter: researchers have advanced the study of cloaking—rendering objects invisible by forcing light waves to act as if the objects weren't there.

In a paper published in this week's Science, a team from Duke University and Southeast University in Nanjing, China, reports a new and improved cloak that can conceal a bump—and anything hidden beneath—on a flat surface. Both the surface and the bump (visible at the far left in the photo) must be reflective, however.

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Another step closer to the locker room fantasies of boy-men everywhere.

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Reply#1 - Mon Jan 19, 2009 9:41 PM EST
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Just plain cool.

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Reply#2 - Mon Jan 19, 2009 10:02 PM EST
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