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Combining Maxwell's equations with Einstein's general relativity promises perfect images and cloaking devices, explains Ulf Leonhardt.

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  1. Ulf Leonhardt is a theoretical physicist at the University of St Andrews, Fife KY16 9SS, Scotland, UK.,

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Leonhardt, U. To invisibility and beyond. Nature 471, 292–293 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/471292a

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