Physicists have figured out the optical parameters for a magic trick they characterize as a kind of "invisibility cloak" — and unlike most magicians, they're only too willing to show you how it's done ...

Researchers say they are rapidly closing in on new types of materials that can throw a cloak of invisibility around objects, fulfilling a fantasy that is as old as ancient myths and as young as "Star ...

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University of Rochester scientists have created a device they're calling "The Rochester Cloak," similar to Harry Potter's invisibility cloak. Who needs magic when you have science? Noted to match the ...

When it comes to invisibility cloaks, one of the trickiest problems is how to make the things. The materials of choice are known as metamaterials which are created by assembling a repeating pattern of ...

Invisibility cloak research focuses on how to make light waves pass through an object as though nothing is there. Now what if you took that same basic principle and applied it to other types of waves ...

Researchers in the US have shown that there's a fundamental limit to how well cloaking devices can really work, thanks to the laws of physics. This means that, based on today's technology, while we ...

Once the stuff of science fiction novels, invisibility technology is creeping closer to reality than ever before. And we don't mean invisible art, or an iPhone that works via a non-existent ...

INVISIBILITY is a well-worn narrative device – one that has, you might say, made many appearances in fiction. Plato wondered if the mythical Ring of Gyges, which made its wearer disappear, would ...

Harry Potter fans can rejoice. German researchers and British researchers have created a three-dimensional invisibility cloak, showing that it is possible to make an object disappear. The researchers ...