Three decades after poet Frank X. Walker coined the term ‘Affrilachia,’ the region’s poets and artists continue to create work that probes the world of a people long ignored.
Elisabeth Moss stars in the latest adaptation of H.G. Wells’ novel.
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Invisibility has been used to indulge fantasies of good and evil, level social critiques or warn of the dangers of power in the wrong hands.
A new invisibility cloak can hide objects using an ultrathin layer of nanoantennas that reflect off light. Are humans next?
Courtesy of Xiang Zhang group, Berkeley Lab/UC Berkeley
Research into invisibility cloaks has been flourishing over the past decade yet they have still not reached the market. But that may be about to change.
Nothing can get to me now.
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The concept of “digital metamaterials” – a simple way of designing metamaterials with bizarre optical properties that could hasten the development of devices such as invisibility cloaks and superlenses…
What do Casper the Friendly Ghost, Harry Potter and H.G Wells’ Griffin all have in common? The answer, of course, is “the ability to become invisible”. And these three characters weren’t the first to have…