by Forbes
The evil wizards in the new movie Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 sneer at magic-less humans they call “Muggles.” It seems like the wizards in Harry Potter have all the fun, with their magical potions and objects. Or do they? Though ordinary Muggles may never be able to turn invisible or even cast a simple Expelliarmus Charm, real-life science is bringing us closer to having technologies that are practically indistinguishable from magic. An actual invisibility cloak, for instance. This past summer scientists at Tufts University published research on their “first large area metamaterial structures” made up of artificially engineered compounds that interact with specific wavelengths of light in ways that organic compounds do not.
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