metamaterials
NASA-Funded Solar Sail Uses Metamaterials to Generate More Power
The Advanced Diffractive MetaFilm Sailcraft could squeeze more energy out of light than traditional reflective sails.
Surprise Discovery Shows 'Artificial Atoms' Rapidly Self-Assembling Into Complex Structures
A new front opens in materials science.
These Physics-Defying "Metamaterials" Were Inspired by Islamic Art
Inspired by the geometries of Islamic stonework, researchers at McGill University created a stretchable material that is reversible.
Invisibility Cloaking Still Isn't Much to Look At
Unless you're the size of a few human cells, you're too big to hide under science's current version of an invisibility cloak. That may change, but not for many years.
Researchers Cracked How to Make 'Invisibility Cloaks' the Size of a Fighter Jet
Stealth tech just got better—or at least bigger.
David R. Smith is Hidden in Plain Sight
Ah, invisibility. To simply disappear one's self is sort of _the_ recurring superpower dream, really - right up there with flight, or X-ray vision. "It just appeals to your imagination," says David R. Smith, a cloaking researcher at Duke University...
Wolves in Electromagnetic Clothing
Metamaterials could outfit future soldiers with invisibility cloaks.