Metamaterials, which are used to produce the items that are termed "invisibility cloaks," have occasionally been targets of skepticism because they don't actually work in visible wavelengths. A paper published in Nature this week describes the structure of a new metamaterial with a negative refractive index that can misdirect light in most of the...
MIAMI - A tax evader was sentenced Friday to 10 months in federal prison after claiming his Jewish parents' experience fleeing the Nazi Holocaust drove him to compulsively hide more than $10 million in secret accounts at Swiss bank UBS AG and other offshore tax havens.
