This Amazing, Light-Bending Metamaterial Can Do Calculus

This Amazing, Light-Bending Metamaterial Can Do Calculus

When we last saw metamaterials, they were helping us create real-life invisibility cloaks. But, in even more exciting news for true nerds, light-bending metamaterial can also do math. Not just simple math, but calculus.

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This Antique Machine Measures Irregular Shapes Better Than a Calculus Professor

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