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'Harry Potter' Invisibility Cloak Now Real? Metamaterials Development Will Allow You to Blend With Your Surroundings

TECH & INNOVATION 02.07.2023 07:06 AM

The power to turn invisible, which has long been a hallmark of science fiction and fantasy, would be a revolutionary technical breakthrough. Check out how scientists are making an invisibility cloak into reality.

Chester Zoo's Baby Aardvark Resembles Harry Potter's House-Elf Dobby [Watch]

02.14.2022 03:20 AM

Chester Zoo welcomes the first-ever baby aardvark Dobby. Its name was inspired by the elf character in the Harry Potter series.

Newly Discovered Green Pit Viper Snakes Named After Harry Potter's Salazar Slytherin

04.22.2020 05:34 AM

Check this out! Scientists from India have discovered a new species of pit vipers and guess which Harry Potter character they name it after. You got that right, none other than the master parseltongue himself, Salazar Slytherin. Click the link above to read the whole story.

Harry Potter's Invisibility Cloak: From Fantasy to Reality by University of the Philippines' Scientists

03.25.2019 07:51 AM

UP scientists make things invisible University of the Philippines' National Institute of Physics (NIP) developed a Harry Potter-like invisibility cloak based on the work of US scientists.

Calling all Potterheads, the Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is set to launch this 2019

03.11.2019 17:31 PM

Following the success of Pokemon Go in 2016, Niantic is set to launch Harry Potter: Wizards Unite later this year

‘Harry Potter’ Underwater: J.K Rowling’s Characters Derived As Crustacean’s Name

02.14.2017 14:26 PM

New crab specie was discovered in the deep corals of Guam, western Pacific Ocean. The crustacean possesses a black eye whose taxonomic identity is still unknown.

Meet 'Harryplax Severus': A Crab Named After 'Harry Potter' Characters

02.14.2017 11:29 AM

After 16 years of discovery, a rare species of coral reef crab is termed 'new' and named after 'Harry Potter' characters. The rare crab is found along the coasts of Guam, an island in the western Pacific Ocean.

Parasitic 'Dementor' Wasp Leaves Prey Without Free Will

05.28.2015 00:39 AM

You may think a wasp that can zombify its prey with venom in order to eat it alive sounds like the stuff of nightmares, but it's actually the stuff of biodiversity. Called the dementor wasp, this terrifying insect was just discovered last year-along with 138 other new species-in the Greater Mekong Region of Asia, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) reports today.

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