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Published online 28 February 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050228-1

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Engineers devise invisibility shield

Electron effects could stop objects from scattering light.

The idea of a cloak of invisibility that hides objects from view has long been confined to the more improbable reaches of science fiction. But electronic engineers have now come up with a way to make one.

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