Invisibility cloaks have been around in various forms since 2006, when the first cloak based on optical metamaterials was demonstrated. The design of cloaking devices has come a long way in the ...

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 ...

Invisibility cloak now a reality, scientists say. By Allison Barrie , Fox News. Published November 13, 2012 8:14am EST | Updated October 20, 2015 4:46pm EDT. Facebook; Twitter ...

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'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 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. Surprisingly ...

For example, there are invisibility cloaks for microwave, infrared, and optical frequencies; ground-plane or carpet cloaks for hiding objects on a flat plane; and cloaks (also called illusion ...

The cloak makes objects invisible to microwaves from all angles, Alù and his colleagues found. They aimed microwaves at an 18-centimeter-long cylinder, fitted inside the invisibility chamber ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, an ...

In “Invisibility,” the professor of physics and optical science Gregory J. Gbur examines the past and future of everyone’s favorite plot device.