Quake damages world’s most powerful microscope

Tokyo: A powerful earthquake that struck Japan’s Osaka region has damaged a microscope with the highest resolution in the world, an official said on Friday. The high voltage tank of the Ultra-high Voltage Electron Microscope, which occupies an entire room at Osaka University, and its circuits were badly damaged. Osaka University was one of the worst damaged by the 6.1 magnitude quake that struck the region on June 18, leaving several students and teachers injured and putting their research projects in jeopardy. IANS

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Harry Potter-like invisibility cloak in the offing    

New York: In a first, scientists have developed an invisibility cloaking technique based on the manipulation of the frequency of light waves as they pass through an object, a breakthrough that could make 3D objects invisible from all directions. The new device, developed by researchers from the US-based ‘The Optical Society’, a scientific society dedicated to advancing the study of light, is known as spectral invisibility cloak. The study, published in the journal Optica, could be constructive for sensing, telecommunications and information processing technologies. It could be further extended to make 3-D objects invisible from all the directions. PTI