Now, Prof Smith and his Duke colleague Nathan Landy have taken another tack, reworking how the edges of a microwave cloak line up, ensuring that the light passes around the cloak completely with no reflections.

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Abraham van Beyeren, Pieter Claesz and Willem Heda, the masters of the masters, could paint with no sign of a brushstroke banquet tables displaying dozens of different surfaces and reflections of food, drink and tableware, vases overflowing with 30 varieties of realistic flowers from all seasons.

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