"Sound cloaks enter the third dimension"
A simple plastic shell has cloaked a three-dimensional object from sound waves for the first time. With some improvements, a similar cloak could eventually be used to reduce noise pollution and...
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"Acoustic Version of Graphene"
Graphene is a layer of carbon atoms one atom thick. These densely packed carbon atoms form a honeycomb lattice. A key signature of graphene is the Dirac cone, the distinctive shape seen when plotting its energy...
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2012
6 Jan
"ScienceShot: Gold Nanostars for Attacking Cancer"
Gold stars, so tiny that it would take a thousand of them to span the diameter of a human hair, could be effective tumor-fighters. Previous studies have shown that minuscule particles of metal or other materials...
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2011
21 Sep
"Una capa para ser invisible a los sonidos" Levante-EMV. Un grupo de investigadores de la UPV y del CSIC ha desarrollado un prototipo de "capa de invisibilidad" para sonidos, de manera que las ondas sonoras atraviesan el objeto como si no estuviera.
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"Pushing Light Beyond Light Speed" Warp speed is still out of reach for spaceships, but two new experiments have pushed a pulse of light beyond the speed limit of 300,000 kilometers per second set down in Einstein's theory of special relativity.
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2011
6 Apr
"Refracción Negativa"(VIDEO) Canal Sur. La refracción negativa es un fenómeno que no existe en la naturaleza, sólo se produce en medios artificiales denominados metamateriales.
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La UPV avanza la "lente perfecta" La Politècnica de València, en colaboración con el King's College de Londres, ha creado un revolucionario metamaterial que hará realidad la lente perfecta...
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"Primeros pasos de un joven ingeniero palaciego" Diario de Sevilla. José Miguel Algarín, natural de Los Palacios y Villafranca, ha sido galardonado con el Premio Jóvenes Científicos de la Unión Científica Internacional de Radio entre más de 750 participantes.
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