Metamaterials: Going beyond nature
Features
This week's magazine
8 January 2011
Issue 2794
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Coriolis-like effect found 184 years before Coriolis
A 17th-century priest trying to prove that the Earth is fixed in space described an effect similar to the one that deflects the planet's ocean currents
News
Health
Haiti to get cholera vaccination
News
Earth
Mysteries of Lake Vostok on brink of discovery
News
Earth
La Ni帽a and monsoonal winds flood northern Australia
News
Health
Europe and North America brace for flu surge
News
Earth
African vultures dying of poison
News
60 Seconds
News
Battle looms over US science funding
News
Earth
Last chance to hold Greenland back from tipping point
News
Physics
Make way for mathematical matter
News
Life
Cluster model shows how first cells could have divided
News
Space
Did ‘Martian’ methane signal come from Earth?
News
Earth
Intensive logging created New England’s rich wetlands
News
Health
Stem cells from urine could help fix your plumbing
News
Health
Placebos can work even when you know they’re fakes
News
Life
Ancient genomes suggest Africa has two elephant species
News
Health
A fat tummy shrivels your brain
News
Is mitochondrial DNA the secret of prostate cancer?
News
Life
Fetuses may have a womb with a view
News
Environment
Bird feeders delay great tits’ dawn chorus
News
Space
How to sort the dwarfs from the planets
News
Earth
Did magma rain on the early Earth?
News
Health
Women’s exercise linked to lower cognitive skill
News
Technology
Mimic-bots learn to do as we do
News
Health
Smart contact lenses for health and head-up displays
News
Technology
Glasses-free 3D TV tries to broaden out its appeal
News
Technology
Vaccine fridge keeps its cool during 10-day power cut
News
Earth
Crystal sieves could make oil sands greener
News
Opinion
The deep value of mathematics
Adventures of the mind continue to have a remarkable effect on the real world
Opinion
UK forensics cuts: International justice will suffer
Opinion
Earth
Stick to your guns, climate scientists
Opinion
Physics
Pi’s nemesis: Mathematics is better with tau
Opinion
Life
V. S. Ramachandran: Mind, metaphor and mirror neurons
Opinion
Features
Metamaterials: Going beyond nature
Nature has given us materials with special properties, such as the reflecting metals we use in mirrors 鈥� now artificial structures are going further
Features
Metamaterials: Transformation optics
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Metamaterials: Making dreams come true
Features
Life
Uncertainty principle: How evolution hedges its bets
Features
Humans
Mind gym: Putting meditation to the test
Features
Life
Game on: When work becomes play
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