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For nearly 20 years, physicists and engineers have chased the idea of invisibility. Early efforts focused on hiding objects from light using so-called metamaterials with extreme and often unrealistic ...

Conceptual illustration of bladed microtube implosion (BMI)Sawtooth-like inner blades on the cylindrical target induce off-axis charged flows under ultraintense laser irradiation, driving strong loop ...

If you can't journey to the centre of the Earth, why not bring the churning heart of the planet to your lab? It's scary stuff, but Adrian Cho thinks it might tell us why we're still alive TAKE 14 ...