A group of UC Berkeley scientists, led by Xiang Zhang, and funded by the military, recently published an experiment in the scientific journals, Nature and Science, whereby the metamaterials they created proved capable of bending light in three dimensions, thereby rendering an object invisible. The experiments were carried out on a nanoscale but the scientists said there’s no reason why larger items such as people, cars, tanks and tankers, couldn’t be made invisible as well. The fact that this research was funded by the military means there’s little chance such materials will trickle down to civilian applications. However, if you’re a communist dictator and want to buy nuclear know-how, get in touch with this man.

Sources: AFP via DiscoveryNews, Nature, Science, Howstuffworks, beconfused, BBC
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