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 ...

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It suggests that the invisibility cloaks that have captured much of the general interest in the field of optical metamaterials are just one manifestation of a more general topic, which the ...

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 ...

Have you ever wished you could hide under an invisibility cloak like Harry Potter or conceal your car with a Klingon cloaking device like in Star Trek? In a special Thursday bonus episode of ...

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.