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At long last, they have invented cloaking for blind people. Metamaterial-based cloaks make objects different from their surrounding appear just like their surrounding…Here, inspired by invisible core-shell nanoparticles in optics, we design an approximate elasto-mechanical core-shell ‘unfeelability’ cloak based on pentamode metamaterials. To summarize, that princess can finally get some fking sleep. Science kicks butt. …

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Weekend Stem Cell Thread

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Along with writing 2001: A Space Odyssey, proposing the geosynchronous satellite and a questionable pedophilia charge, Arthur C. Clarke once famously observed that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Clarke undoubtedly had in mind a visitor from the mid 19th century or earlier, but things move faster now. For example, the other day …

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No Ship That Small Has A Cloaking Device

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Science has dealt another blow to those who draw their scientific knowledge from Star Wars films. Contrary to the famous line in the Empire Strikes Back,a new engineering approach called metamaterials can potentially cloak any size ship as long as you know what energy wavelength the other guy plans to use. So much for verisimilitude, …

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