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

The iconic Harry Potter invisibility cloak has been brought to life by a group of scientists who have unlocked a ground-breaking new level of optical technology. According to several reports and the ...

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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 ...

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’ ...

Harry Potter fans, take note: Scientists have made an object “disappear” using a cloaking device similar in many ways to the invisibility cloak imagined by author J.K. Rowling. Researchers 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 ...

It's slowly happening - the magical world and the Muggle world are finally merging, and it's amazing. Ever since JK Rowling wowed readers with all things Harry Potter, scientists have been desperately ...

If you were given an invisibility cloak, what would you do with it? Harry Potter definitely wore the piece well as he used it to camouflage himself when he snuck off to Hogsmeade Village or hid from ...