First proposed over thirty years ago, negative refractive index materials bend light in the opposite direction to ordinary materials. However, they were not demonstrated experimentally until 2000.

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Researchers at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in Spain have developed a new, simple, one-pot method to make highly conductive metal-organic ultrathin films that are both flexible and mechanically ...

Sometimes the universe is just too complicated to analyze. Heck, if you take a tennis ball and toss it across the room, even that is practically too complicated. After it leaves your hand, the ball ...