Topic: Harry Potter
European researchers have taken the world a step closer to fictional wizard Harry Potter's invisibility cape after they made an object disappear using a three-dimensional "cloak," a study published Thursday in the US-based journal Science showed. Scientists from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany and Imperial College London used the cloak, made using photonic crystals with a structure ...
From Grimm's fairy tales to Harry Potter, the cloak of invisibility has played a major role in fiction. Now scientists have taken a small but important new step toward making it reality. Researchers at Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology report they were able to cloak a tiny ...
The concept of kids chat is not something to be taken lightly. In fact, it's powerful, more powerful than a mix of diet coke and soda and the entire Metallica collection put together. From a brief history of time, even before Stephen Hawking dreamt of black holes and James Cameron made inner peace with blue aliens, we know that ...
The Harry Potter series has topped a poll for the books people would most recommend to the next generation, according to a survey on Thursday to mark World Book Day. When asked which books of the last decade they would most like to pass on, one in five of those surveyed said they would choose JK Rowling's seven books ...
