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Scientists create first free-standing 3D cloak

Scientists create first free-standing 3D cloak

26 January 2012

Researchers in the US have, for the first time, cloaked a three-dimensional object standing in free space, bringing the much-talked-about invisibility cloak one step closer to reality

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