CHICAGO (Reuters) - A new light-bending material has brought scientists one step closer to creating a cloaking device that could hide objects from sight. Beyond possible military applications, it also ...

From cloaking devices that conceal spaceships, to Harry Potter’s hand-me-down disappearing blanket, or even the One Ring and its power to conceal its wearer, invisibility is a staple in science ...

DARPA, the governmental department that researches crazy things that may eventually make it into the military, is currently working on an “ultrasonic curtain”. In layman’s terms, it’s a sonic cloaking ...

University of Utah mathematicians developed a new cloaking method, and it’s unlikely to lead to invisibility cloaks like those used by Harry Potter or Romulan spaceships in “Star Trek.” Instead, the ...

Magnetic cloaking has long sounded like a plot device from science fiction, but it is rapidly becoming a practical tool for managing the invisible forces that surround modern electronics. Instead of ...

Harry Potter’s iconic “Invisibility Cloak” could perhaps be within our sight. Chinese scientists have devised a camouflage material that adjusts its molecular composition to blend into the background, ...

The theorists who first created the mathematics that describe the behavior of the recently announced “invisibility cloak” have revealed a new analysis that may extend the current cloak’s powers, ...

Derek's love of games came at an early age when his parents first brought home the Nintendo Entertainment System. From then on, countless nights were spent hunting ducks, stomping turtles, exploring ...

Physicists Moti Fridman and colleagues at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) have successfully demonstrated a time-cloaking device that can “hide” time for 15 trillionths of a second. In a paper ...