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Cloaking Ships To Trick Water

The future ships are going to be cloaked against sonar, but researchers might make the ships cloaked against the water itself by acting as if they are not there. The Duke University researchers reached a new cloaking system that depends on a new metamaterial can make the water stand still as the ships move through, … Continue reading

Speeding Ships

255 years ago, a  German doctor Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost discovered a phenomenon that when a liquid is exposed to a solid that is significantly above that liquid’s boiling point, forms an insulating vapor layer between itself and that solid; this is known as Leidenfrost effect. The University of Melbourne’s Department of Mathematics and Statistics with Saudi Arabia’s King Abdulla … Continue reading