Title: Magical Invisibility Cloak Soon to Be Real

Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/533/invisible_audio.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Magical Invisibility Cloak Soon to Be Real' data-article-id='862'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='4979'>All you Harry Potter fans out there have reason to celebrate!</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='4979' data-end-time='12271'>Scientists say they are close to inventing a real invisibility cloth.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='12271' data-end-time='20750'>Harry Potter is a popular book and movie series about a boy who fights evil and wins. </span> <span data-start-time='20750' data-end-time='27479'>His success is partly because of magic tools like an invisibility cloth. </span> <span data-start-time='27479' data-end-time='31625'>When he hides underneath of it, you can’t see him. </span> <span data-start-time='31625' data-end-time='34271'>He becomes invisible. </span> </p><p><span data-start-time='34271' data-end-time='43479'>Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley say they have invented a cloth that hides shapes. </span> <span data-start-time='43479' data-end-time='47396'>We see shapes when light hits an object. </span> <span data-start-time='47396' data-end-time='52875'>The light then scatters and bounces around to reveal a shape. </span> </p><p><span data-start-time='52875' data-end-time='64771'>The cloak is made with millions of tiny mirrors of gold so small they are the size of a human hair made 1,000 times thinner. </span> <span data-start-time='64771' data-end-time='69854'>The mirrors stop the light from scattering and bouncing.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='69854' data-end-time='80188'>The military would be very interested in this kind of technology, scientists say, as would cosmetic and car makers, too.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/533/hp_image.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=4154 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All you Harry Potter fans out there have reason to celebrate!

Scientists say they are close to inventing a real invisibility cloth.

Harry Potter is a popular book and movie series about a boy who fights evil and wins. His success is partly because of magic tools like an invisibility cloth. When he hides underneath of it, you can’t see him. He becomes invisible.

Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley say they have invented a cloth that hides shapes. We see shapes when light hits an object. The light then scatters and bounces around to reveal a shape.

The cloak is made with millions of tiny mirrors of gold so small they are the size of a human hair made 1,000 times thinner. The mirrors stop the light from scattering and bouncing.

The military would be very interested in this kind of technology, scientists say, as would cosmetic and car makers, too.

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