{"id":34949,"date":"2017-02-27T12:24:37","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T20:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/sound-shaping-metamaterial-invented"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:47:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:47:53","slug":"sound-shaping-metamaterial-invented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/sound-shaping-metamaterial-invented","title":{"rendered":"Sound-shaping metamaterial invented"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sound-shaping-metamaterial-invented.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A super-material that bends, shapes and focuses sound waves that pass through it has been invented by scientists.<\/p>\n<p>The creation pushes the boundaries of metamaterials \u2014 a new class of finely-engineered surfaces that perform nature-defying tasks.<\/p>\n<p>These materials have already shown remarkable results with light manipulation, allowing scientists to create a real-life version of Harry Potter\u2019s invisibility cloak, for example.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-02-sound-shaping-metamaterial.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017&#45;02-sound-shaping-metamaterial.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A super-material that bends, shapes and focuses sound waves that pass through it has been invented by scientists. The creation pushes the boundaries of metamaterials \u2014 a new class of finely-engineered surfaces that perform nature-defying tasks. These materials have already shown remarkable results with light manipulation, allowing scientists to create a real-life version of Harry [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34949"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48669,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34949\/revisions\/48669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}