Students at the University of Rochester have developed a clever optical system which allows for limited invisibility thanks to a bit of optic sorcery physics. Almost all invisibility technologies ...

Scientists might be a step closer to developing that Harry Potter-style invisibility cloak of your dreams. In 2015, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, in the US, created a thin ...

We envision a world in which the sort of invisibility cloaks, the kind that appear in Harry Potter books and movies, could soon be reality. We’d be able to disappear just like that. A number of ...

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Watch this device, called the Rochester cloak, in action below, "cloaking" the researchers hand: To first understand how to perform your own disappearing act, here's a basic lesson in lenses.

A divorced mother of a young child quietly publishes a children's book about a young orphan who receives an invisibility cloak as a Christmas present. Only 1,000 copies of Harry Potter and the ...

Smith had been working on a prototype for an invisibility cloak, and the US military had poured millions into his research. The invisibility cloak doesn't necessarily make a person disappear ...