A video captured on a Ring security camera has revealed a person wearing an invisibility cloak. The footage shows a mysterious figure where only a floating head and shoes are visible while walking ...

Humans have been captivated by the idea of invisibility for ages, and this fascination has permeated popular culture, from Harry Potter's magic cloak to Frodo's mystical ring, which renders him ...

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 ...

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Light reflects off the cloak (red arrows) as if it were reflecting off a flat mirror. Washington - Invisibility skin cloaks on the microscopic scale might prove valuable for hiding the detailed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.