At the moment the idea of an invisibility cloak remains theoretical, and scientists are spending their time on theoretical models to see how a device designed to ‘hide’ an object could be rendered.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A B-2 stealth bomber takes off from Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, Nevada. In addition to using anti-reflective paint to ...

Science and fiction always had a chicken and egg relationship: it’s hard to tell which one informs the other. Take invisibility, a fantastical notion brought into popular culture first by HG Wells’ ...

Are physics – not magic — the key to a Harry Potter-style invisibility cloak? New research indicates yes. A recent study by researchers from Imperial College London involves a new class of space-aged ...

Humans have long been fascinated by invisibility, but practical cloaks today mainly evade radar, not human eyes. New research shows 3D-printed metasurfaces can form flexible invisibility cloaks that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research shows magnetic cloaks can be built for real-world shapes using superconductors and soft magnets. (CREDIT: ...

In the early 2000s, two methods for a potential invisibility cloak were discovered by physicists in the United Kingdom and the United States who said that the technology necessary to create these ...