It might not seem like much compared with Harry Potter’s magic garment, but the first functional invisibility cloak has emerged from a North Carolina laboratory.
NOW YOU SEE IT. Microwaves bent by the concentric walls of this 1-centimeter-tall invisibility device circumvent the center area and emerge on their original paths as if nothing had been in the way.
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