Science has been chasing the mythical invisibility cloak for years, and recent experiments have even shown the concept to be valid. But what if you want to go beyond simply hiding something from the ...

Are physics – not magic — the key to a Harry Potter-style invisibility cloak? New research indicates yes. A recent study by researchers from Imperial College London involves a new class of space-aged ...

Texas scientists create "mirage effect" in lab. Oct. 5, 2011 — -- It's hard to write about the experiment done at the University of Texas at Dallas without invoking Harry Potter and his ...

Exploring a real-life invisibility cloak experiment.

Any object able to fit inside a one-inch diameter cylinder is rendered invisible, boasts Robert Schittny and his colleagues from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. The team have developed ...

Imagine: You’re the proud owner of an invisibility cloak. What do you do? Do you sneak into concerts and make your way on stage? Spy on your friends to find out what they say about you when you’re not ...

A Canadian company called Hyperstealth is reporting that it has developed Quantum Stealth, a material that renders the target "completely invisible by bending light waves around the target." If the ...

WASHINGTON, April 19–Invisibility cloaks are seemingly futuristic devices capable of concealing very small objects by bending and channeling light around them. Until now, however, cloaking techniques ...

University of Utah mathematicians developed a new cloaking method, and it’s unlikely to lead to invisibility cloaks like those used by Harry Potter or Romulan spaceships in “Star Trek.” Instead, the ...

WASHINGTON — Scientists are boldly going where only fiction has gone before — to develop a cloak of invisibility. It isn’t quite ready to hide a Romulan space ship from Captain James T. Kirk or to ...

Invisibility is an intriguing futuristic possibility. Growing interest in such mystery of making yourself invisible began as far back as 1933 with the science-fiction film “The Invisible Man” and ...

The idea of objects seamlessly disappearing, not just in controlled laboratory environments but also in real-world scenarios, has long captured the popular imagination. This concept epitomizes the ...