Chinese researchers have moved a long-running science fiction fantasy into the realm of working hardware, unveiling a prototype cloak that can make a person effectively vanish from view. Instead of ...

WASHINGTON - A cloak of invisibility may be common in science fiction but it is not so easy in the real world. New research suggests such a device may be moving closer to reality. Scientists said on ...

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 ...

Summer is now but a distant memory — it's well and truly spooky season. With Halloween just around the corner, the dreaded question of what to dress up as is on many people's minds. There are so many ...

After plugging away for some time at two dimensional invisibility cloaks, researchers have begun experimenting with a cloak that can obscure its contents in three dimensions. This is very interesting, ...

BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fractal Antenna Systems, Inc. (‘Fractal’) today announced it has secured patent on a method to detect invisibility cloaks and related stealth metamaterials, thus ...

Harry Potter is not the first to set our imaginations reeling with how glorious and fun it would be to don an invisibility ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most invisibility cloaks under development actually make objects more visible overall, not less, scientists have revealed. This novel finding points to ways researchers can develop better invisibility ...