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Nature 428, 245 (18 March 2004) | doi:10.1038/428245a

Pentagon attempts to bend light to its will

Geoff Brumfiel

A research initiative is being launched by the Pentagon to investigate negatively refractive materials — structures that seem to defy basic physics by bending light the 'wrong' way.A chunk of negatively refracting material about the size of a cheese wedge was on display at a technical meeting held last week by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Anaheim, California.

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