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Published online 25 May 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060522-18

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Invisibility cloaks are in sight

Two new recipes tell how to make objects vanish.

Two prescriptions for an invisibility cloak have been unveiled by physicists in the United Kingdom and the United States. The researchers say that in principle the technologies needed for building these devices already exist.

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