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Has science finally cracked the secret to invisibility?

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October 9, 2025

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How do you make an object invisible? Alok Jha, host of the Babbage podcast, speaks to Professor Sir John Pendry, the theoretical physicist whose pioneering work on metamaterials has redefined how scientists can manipulate space and light.

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