We have been reporting on invisibility cloaks since starry-eyed theorists managed to show that it was mathematically possible to design a structure that prevented electromagnetic waves from ...

Two magicians physicists at the University of Rochester in New York have created an invisibility cloak capable of hiding large objects, such as humans, buses, or satellites, from visible light.

Chinese researchers have succeeded in using a highly novel approach to craft a Teflon-based invisibility cloak in just 15 minutes. The process, called topology optimization, uses computer software to ...

Forget Harry Potter’s fictional invisibility cloak: A Canadian company that manufactures camouflage uniforms has created a mind-blowing, light-bending material that can make objects seemingly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What would it take to hide an entire planet? It sounds more like a question posed in an episode of “Star Trek” than in academic ...

Invisibility cloaks have been around for a while, albeit not in the way you see in Harry Potter (yet). Devices made out of metamaterials, a type of engineered material designed to distort perception, ...

If you liked last year's bulky invisibility cloaks, you'll love this year's fashionable ultra-thin invisibility wrap — which is just a tenth of a millimeter thick but can still make the objects inside ...

A real 'invisibility cloak' has been invented by Chinese scientists ...

DURHAM, N.C. — A team led by scientists at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering has demonstrated the first working “invisibility cloak.” The cloak deflects microwave beams so they flow around ...

Science and fiction always had a chicken and egg relationship: it’s hard to tell which one informs the other. Take invisibility, a fantastical notion brought into popular culture first by HG Wells’ ...

It has been the stuff of science fiction and fantasy for generations – the ability to turn yourself or something you want to hide invisible. There's the Invisible Man, Harry Potter had an invisibility ...