{"id":444516,"date":"2010-03-18T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:2231850"},"modified":"2010-03-18T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T20:15:00","slug":"the-latest-fashion-in-invisibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/444516","title":{"rendered":"The latest fashion in invisibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><DIV align=center><br \/>\n<TABLE id=table1><br \/>\n<TBODY><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><IMG border=1 src=\"http:\/\/msnbcmedia.msn.com\/i\/MSNBC\/Components\/Photo\/_new\/100318-coslog-invisibility-466px-945a.jpg\" width=465 height=262><BR><br \/>\n<DIV align=right><FONT size=1 face=Tahoma align=\"right\">Science \/ AAAS<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/TD><\/TR><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><br \/>\n<DIV align=left><FONT size=1 face=Verdana align=\"left\">This graphic shows&nbsp;a 3-D nanostructure, consisting of a bumpy gold surface <BR>layer with the tailored &#8220;invisibility cloak&#8221; underneath. The cloak, made from <BR>laser-sculpted layers of polymer, hides the bump from optical detection.<BR><br \/>\n<HR><br \/>\n<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/DIV><br \/>\n<P>Scientists have designed a more stylish cloak of invisibility that can hide a bumpy feature from view, even if you&#8217;re looking right at it from a wide range of perspectives. But don&#8217;t expect boy wizard Harry Potter to be modeling this cloak anytime soon.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>It&#8217;s actually more like an ultra-thin carpet of invisibility, created from layers of laser-sculpted polymer and topped off with a bumpy coating of gold.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>&#8220;In our carpet, you could put any object beneath the bump, and it would be hidden because the bump itself is hidden,&#8221; Tolga Ergin, a physicist at Germany&#8217;s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, told me. The research conducted by Ergin and his colleagues was <A href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/science.1186351\">published online today<\/A> by the journal Science.<\/P>&#8230;(<a href=\"http:\/\/cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com\/archive\/2010\/03\/18\/2231850.aspx\">read more<\/a>)<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com\/aggbug.aspx?PostID=2231850\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science \/ AAAS This graphic shows&nbsp;a 3-D nanostructure, consisting of a bumpy gold surface layer with the tailored &#8220;invisibility cloak&#8221; underneath. The cloak, made from laser-sculpted layers of polymer, hides the bump from optical detection. Scientists have designed a more stylish cloak of invisibility that can hide a bumpy feature from view, even if you&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}