In theory, all that's needed to make a small object invisible is something called a superlens, says Graeme Milton, a mathematician at the University of Utah. He and Australia-based collaborators ...

Unlike a typical lens, study coauthor Zengbo Wang explained in the statement that using this spider silk-enhanced “superlens” is like “looking through a cylindrical glass bottle . . . the single ...

The recently demonstrated far-field optical superlens is paving the way to this elusive goal. Invented most probably by Galileo Galilei, named by Giovanni Faber, improved and brought to the ...

Now, the concept has taken a large step forward with the first demonstration of magnification with a superlens. The device constructed by Igor Smolyaninov and colleagues from the University of ...