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 ...

Invented and manufactured in Czechia, a special cloak that can make soldiers invisible to enemy drones is being used ...

In the Harry Potter novels, the cloak of invisibility enabled Harry and his friends, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, to explore Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry without being seen or ...

Q: The last time I was in New York I looked up at the Flatiron Building and wished I had an invisibility cloak so that I could wander from floor to floor to simply see what things looked like ...

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 ...

To address these issues, the research group designed a 2D full-parameter omnidirectional planar invisibility cloak composed of only two homogeneous materials based on linear transformation optics.

At present, U.S. troops use high-tech camouflage equipment called "Vatec" that allows the wearer to hide from infra-red and heat-seeking devices. But scientists are developing much more sophisticated ...

Meaning: describes something involving mystery, intrigue or secret agents. Harry’s convenient Cloak of Invisibility is useful for keeping him hidden in many of his cloak-and-dagger adventures.

The final book in the Harry Potter series — and the final two movies — introduced us to three legendary Wizarding World artifacts: the Resurrection Stone, the Cloak of Invisibility ...

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.

The device is called a cloak, a term borrowed from Harry Potter ... frequencies quite successfully," Pendry said. "The idea of invisibility — I may have mentioned in my talk — it is to say ...