Today’s physics news: Scientists make ‘invisibility cloak’ breakthrough, innovation is ‘imperative,’ says Brazil science minister and more

Today’s physics news: Scientists make ‘invisibility cloak’ breakthrough, innovation is ‘imperative,’ says Brazil science minister and more

Scientists make ‘invisibility cloak’ breakthrough
Scientists in the United States have made a further step towards creating an “invisibility cloak” by masking a large, free-standing object in three dimensions.
Telegraph
BBC

Innovation is ‘imperative,’ says Brazil science minister
But new appointee must reverse last year’s budget cuts
Nature

Fight over changing constants reaches stalemate
What was supposed to be a superweapon in the battle to find out whether nature’s fundamental constants vary has turned out to be a damp squib
New Scientist