Exploring a real-life invisibility cloak experiment.

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 ...

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 ...

For nearly 20 years, physicists and engineers have chased the idea of invisibility. Early efforts focused on hiding objects from light using so-called metamaterials with extreme and often unrealistic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...