Media Coverage of Our Work
Television Interviews and Coverage
The Colbert Report
13 November 2012
Duke cloaking research mentioned on The Colbert Report during the opening monologue.
Ancient Aliens
November, 2011
Professor Smith and the metamaterials lab featured on an episode of the History Channel's series "Ancient Aliens," entitled "Heroes, Kings and Aliens.
Find out more from the Ancient Aliens site.
Smith Lab Featured on NOVA "Making Stuff"
February, 2011
Professor Smith and the metamaterials lab featured on an episode of the PBS NOVA series "Making Stuff," hosted by New York Times
technology reporter David Pogue.
Find out more or watch the programs on the PBS site.
Physics of The Impossible
22 December 2009
Prof. Smith and lab members featured on the Science Channel series "Sci Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible," on an episode titled "How to become invisible."
Physics of the Impossible is hosted by author and technologist Michio Kaku. Find more information at the
Science Channel website.
Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention
7 November 2009
The Duke "invisibility cloak" was featured on Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention, a BBC series highlighting inventors and invention, on the episode "Come to Your Senses."
PopSci's "Future Of..."
14 September 2009
Professor Smith and the metamaterials lab were highlighted on an episode of the series "Future Of...", which first aired on The Science Channel at 9:00 pm,
September 14, 2012. The episode was titled "The Future of Combat." The series was developed by Popular Science and can be
found here.
History Channel's "That's Impossible!"
7 July 2009
Professor Smith and the metamaterials lab highlighted on the premiere episode of the series "That's Impossible!", which aired on The History Channel.
The episode was titled "Invisibility Cloaks." The series is narrated by Jonathan Frakes.
"Visions of the Future"
19 November 2007
Professor Smith and the metamaterials lab highlighted on episode 3: "Visions of the Future: The Quantum Revolution," hosted by Michio Kaku. The program aired on BBC Four and
can be found here.
"Star Trek Tech" on Modern Marvels
18 February 2006
Professor Smith and the metamaterials lab featured on Modern Marvels, on the episode "Star Trek Tech", which aired on The History Channel.
Popular Science Journals and Magazines
October-2007 | L'Homme Invisible: C'Est Possible!David Larousserie, Sciences et Avenir, p60
June-2007 | Recent Advances in Cloaking
Optics and Photonics News 32 (June, 2007)
March-2007 | Unexpected Tricks of the Light
Katharine Sanderson, Nature Magazine 446, p364
12-March-2007 | TR10: Invisible Revolution
Philip Ball, Technology Review
Metamaterials chosen as one of the Top Ten Emerging Technologies
Jan-2007 | Invisibilite: Des metamateriax font de ce reve une realite
Science et Vie 1072, 84 (2007)
Jan-2007 | 1 An de Science: L'invisibilitie pour tous
La Recherche, p36 (January, 2007)
Jan-2007
| The Top 100 Science Stories of 2006
Discover Magazine (January, 2007)
22-Dec-2006 | Breakthrough of the Year: The Runners-Up
Science Magazine 314, 1850 (2006)
Dec-2006 | Technology Review 2006: The exotic and the everyday spur innovation
Laser Focus World (December, 2006)
Dec-2006 | Vanishing Act
BBC Focus 171, 15 (2006)
Nov-2006 | How to build an invisibility cloak
Discover Magazine, p55 (November, 2006)
Dec-2006 | Not seeing is believing
Materials Today 9, 9 (December, 2006)
Dec-2006 | The Scientific American 50
Scientific American 295, 49 (2006)
20-Oct-2006 | Invisibility cloak unveiled
Marie Theresa Bray, Cosmos
19-Oct-2006 | Invisibility cloak sees light of day
JR Minkel, Scientific American
19-Oct-2006 | First invsibility cloak tested successfully, scientists say
Sean Markey, National Geographic News
19-Oct-2006 | Vanishing Actor: Physicists unveil first invisibility cloak
Peter Weiss, Science News Online
19-Oct-2006 | Working invisibility cloak created at last
Justin Mullins, New Scientist Tech
Sep-2006 | The first invisibility shield
Justin Mullins, Popular Science
26-May-2006 | Cloaking breakthrough
Duncan Graham-Rowe, MIT Technology Review
Television interviews and coverage
19-Nov-2007 | Visions of the Future -Episode III: The Quantum Revolution
Hosted by Michio Kaku
BBC4 History and Science Studio
David Smith interviewed
18-Feb-2006 | Star Trek Tech
Modern Marvels, The History Channel
David Smith, David Schurig and Steve Cummer interviewed
23-Oct-2006 | See-Through Science: A Real Cloak of Invisibility
The Today Show, NBC
David Smith, David Schurig and Steve Cummer interviewed
A link to the video can be found from the Duke website.
21-Oct-2006 | Cloak of Invisibility
Fox News Live
David Schurig interviewed
See video on YouTube
19-Oct-2006 | Countdown with Keith Olbermann
Keith Olbermann and Derrick Pitts discuss invisibility
Read transcript here
Radio interviews and coverage
6-Dec-2006 | Invisibility Cloaks
BBC Radio Science: Frontiers
Peter Evans, host
Alexandra Feachem, producer
19-Oct-2006 | It's Elemental!
Are We Alone? The SETI Institute's Weekly Science Radio Program
Dr. Seth Shostak, host
Molly Bently, producer
20-Oct-2006 | Duke university scientists create invsibility cloak
Voice of America Radio
Report by Art Chimes
20-Oct-2006 | Scientists make progress on invisibility device
National Public Radio
Report by Christopher Joyce
Newspaper interviews and coverage
12-Jun-2007 | Light Fantastic
Kenneth Chang, Science Times, New York Times (Cover Story)
23-Oct-2006 | 'Invisible' to microwaves
Marc Kaufman, Washington Post
20-Oct-2006 | Now you see him... scientists take step closer to making invisible cloak a reality
Ian Sample, The Guardian
19-Oct-2006 | Experts create invisibility cloak
Paul Rincon, BBC News
19-Oct-2006 | A real invisibility cloak? Wizard!
Lewis Smith, London Times Online
19-Oct-2006 | Researchers get 'cloak of invisibility' to work, sort of
Ker Than, Fox News/Live Science
20-Oct-2006 | Duke scientists demonstrate cloaking device
Thomas H. Maugh II, Los Angeles Times
20-Oct-2006 | Scientists take step toward invisibility
John Schwarz, New York Times
20-Oct-2006 | Disappear into thin air? Scientists take step toward invisibility
Peter N. Spotts, Christian Science Monitor
19-Oct-2006 | Scientists take 'cloak of invisibility' to the next step
Laurie Sullivan, TechWeb News
19-Oct-2006 | Cloaking device works, sort of, scientists say
Maggie Fox, Reuters
19-Oct-2006 | Duke takes wraps off cloaking device
R. Colin Johnson, EE Times
19-Oct-2006 | Scientists develop cloaking device
United Press International
20-Oct-2006 | Scientists create cloak of invisibility
Randolph E. Schmid, Associated Press
(reprinted in over 500 newspapers and magazines)
20-Oct-2006 | 'Invisibility cloak' a step closer
Catherine Clabby, News and Observer
20-Oct-2006 | Now you see it... Invisibility cloak could become a reality
Dan Vergano, USA Today
(front page story. PDF version.)
19-Oct-2006 | Scientists create 'invisibility' cloak that bends microwaves
CBC News (Canada)
29-May-2006 | Scientists shed new light on invisibility
Gareth Cook, The Boston Globe
25-May-2006 | Here's how to make an invisibility cloak
Alan Boyle, MSNBC
