Invisibility
Materials: Fact or Fiction - Harry Potter's Invisibility Cloak
Colm Healy, MacDiarmid Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Canterbury gives us his scientific take on Harry Potter's Invisibility Cloak. Video, Audio
Guayule: new rubber source
Cade Metz of Wired on the rush to develop alternative rubber sources, and the interest in the shrub guayule. Audio
Science: pain relief and invisibility cloaks
Dr Chris Smith of the Naked Scientists on invisibility cloaks, new approaches to pain relief and combatting Alzheimer's disease. Audio
Invisibility: A Cultural History
The stories that we have told about invisibility are not stories of a technical capability but of power, desire, concealment, morality and corruption. What are these old tales of invisibility really… Audio
Invisibility and curiosity
Editor for Nature magazine for over 20 years, and author of Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything, Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics Under Hitler, and… Audio