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Open thread

by Tim F|  June 24, 20149:21 am| 136 Comments

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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

by Tim F|  December 30, 200712:45 am| 31 Comments

This post is in: Science & Technology

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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More Sci/Tech News

by Tim F|  May 20, 200712:24 am| 14 Comments

This post is in: Science & Technology

Some other topics to muse while I put off going to bed. * A philanthropist named Mark Bent has an excellent sense of pressure points, areas where a modest investment and limited technogy can yield a huge improvement in many lives. Too often would-be benefactors decide in advance what they want to give and then …

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No Ship That Small Has A Cloaking Device

by Tim F|  November 11, 200612:53 pm| 19 Comments

This post is in: Science & Technology

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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