A shorter version of this podcast first appeared on Pythagoras Trousers episode 50 on October 17th 2011

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I did an interview with Professor Ortwin Hess from Imperial College, London because I wanted to learn more about his involvement in the development of magnetic cloaks. You could think of these as invisibility cloaks, but instead of hiding objects from electromagnetic waves (light) you hide them from magnetic fields.

Image credit: Imperial College

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