In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, Rowan Hooper reveals how ...

It’s called active cloaking, which means it uses devices that actively generate electromagnetic fields rather than being composed of ‘metamaterials’ [exotic metallic substances] that ...

When combined with metamaterials, this combination could, in theory at least, simulate the capabilities of science fiction-like cloaking technology. Other efforts may also lean on nature once again.

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Traditional metamaterials have been designed to control heat flow through methods like cloaking and concentrating. However, these designs often serve a single function, limiting their applications.

For the first time, scientists have demonstrated that negative refraction can be achieved using atomic arrays - without the need for artificially manufactured metamaterials. Scientists have ...

Scientists have long sought to control light in ways that appear to defy the laws of Nature. Negative refraction - a phenomenon where light bends in the opposite direction to its usual behaviour - has ...

Additionally, research on diffusion metamaterials has expanded the application of transformation principles to control not just electromagnetic waves but also the diffusion of heat, particles, and ...