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PEEP HOLE. "The researchers have even found a mind-boggling application. Their idea is to create the illusion that a wall has a hole in it, and then use the hole to look through the wall. That’s not quite as bonkers as it sounds. The wall has to be pretty thin, and what the new device does is allow light to tunnel through the wall in a way that would not ordinarily be possible. Amazing, if it works." https://lnkd.in/exKwCuQ View in LinkedIn

SUPERFAMILY. "A class of ion channels that belongs to the transient receptor potential (TRP) superfamily and is present in specialized neurons that project to the skin has evolved as temperature detectors." https://lnkd.in/eZQCjnY View in LinkedIn

STEP TWO. "The second step is to then distort this plane wave in the way that an elephant would. This means creating transformational material that distorts a plane lightwave in the same way as an elephant. So anybody looking at this mouse would instead see an elephant." https://lnkd.in/exKwCuQ View in LinkedIn

TRPA1 SUPERFAMILY. "TRPV1 and TRPV2 are activated by heat in the noxious range (>42°C and >52°C, respectively), whereas TRPA1 is reported to be activated by noxious cold (

STEP ONE. "So a plane wave would be bent by the mouse but then bent back into a plane as it passes through the complementary material, making the mouse disappear." https://lnkd.in/exKwCuQ View in LinkedIn

TRPA1 SUPERFAMILY. "TRPs are cation-selective channels that exhibit varying degrees of calcium permeability and respond to a wide range of stimuli (eg, temperature, mechanical, osmolarity, chemical). A subset of TRP channels is activated by different temperatures (eg, TRPV1-4, TRPM8, and TRPA1)." https://lnkd.in/ey47aVM View in LinkedIn

STEP ONE. "The trick is to create a material in which the permittivity and permeability are complementary to the values in a nearby region of space containing the mouse we want to hide. “Complementary” means that the material cancels out the effect that the mouse has on a plane lightwave passing through." https://lnkd.in/exKwCuQ View in LinkedIn

ILLUSION DEVICE. "Just when you thought invisibility cloaks couldn’t get any weirder, researchers come up with this: a way to make one object look like any other." https://lnkd.in/exKwCuQ View in LinkedIn

DIVERSITY "can be observed in the various roles of TRPA1 in different species, where it is proposed to act as a temperature-insensitive chemosensor, a heat transducer, a noxious cold transducer, or a detector of low-intensity heat for prey localization." https://lnkd.in/e-WBvC9 View in LinkedIn

KEY TO SURVIVAL. "Transient receptor potential ankyrin 1 (TRPA1) is a polymodal ion channel sensitive to temperature and chemical stimuli. The importance of temperature and aversive chemical detection for survival has driven the evolutionary diversity of TRPA1 sensitivity." https://lnkd.in/e-WBvC9 View in LinkedIn