German scientists made a really tiny invisibility cloak work, according to a study published in Science this month.
“We put an object under a microscopic structure, a little like a reflective carpet,” said Nicholas Stenger, one of the researchers who worked on the project.
“When we looked at it through a lens and did spectroscopy, no matter what angle we looked at the object from, we saw nothing. The bump became invisible,” said Stenger.
They essentially did it with special lenses that bend light.
This is cool, but Discovery’s treatment of the story is even more interesting. In one breath they paint the news as Harry Potter come to life, and in the next they link the story to one on making soldiers invisible. Hmm.
