A video purportedly showing a man demonstrating the abilities of his new invisibility cloak went viral in December 2017. Most English speaking internet users encountered this footage after it was ...

The cloak is about 3 cm thick, and cloaks a region nearly 14 cm (5.5 in) in diameter. The cloak itself is a plastic/air composite formed into an annulus about 3 cm thick that surrounds the cloaked ...

Although media reports have hyped the breakthrough as producing an invisibility cloak for Harry Potter, this is not the case. The ultimate result would not be flexible material. It may prove a ...

An "invisibility cloak" that's able to hide items thousands of times larger than before now exists, scientists say. Light is often bent in nature. For instance, mirages form when desert sands heat ...

It may not be a cape of magical, silvery material, but it's still an invisibility cloak. A tube made of an insulating material striped with long, thin strips of copper makes objects within it ...

Imagine throwing a cloak over your head and becoming invisible to the outside world. That possibility, once the stuff of science fiction and fantasy, could soon become a reality. An invisibility ...

But in a new study, scientists have designed and fabricated an invisibility cloak that may make such a feat possible. The new cloak can conceal some arbitrarily chosen parts of objects while ...

It's certainly not going to enable invisibility cloaks like the one Harry Potter wears or the ones used in Star Trek, but Choi and Howell's device is more than just a variation on the classic ...

Two magicians physicists at the University of Rochester in New York have created an invisibility cloak capable of hiding large objects, such as humans, buses, or satellites, from visible light.

Russia has developed and deployed new camouflage technology for its troops that many have nicknamed “invisibility cloaks,” local news has reported. “This new ‘cloak-nevidimka’ is part of ...

Invisibility cloaks, like the one Harry Potter wears in J.K. Rowling’s books, may not remain a fantasy forever, says Wil McCarthy,a contributing editor for the magazine. Susumu Tachi ...