Could invisibility cloaks become a reality? New research brings this science fiction concept a step closer, with a breakthrough software package that simulates how waves interact with complex ...

Magnetic invisibility sounds simple in theory. Place the right materials around an object and magnetic fields flow around it as if nothing were there. Reality has been far messier. For nearly two ...

For nearly 20 years, physicists and engineers have chased the idea of invisibility. Early efforts focused on hiding objects from light using so-called metamaterials with extreme and often unrealistic ...

There’s something that some of us want to believe — something weird and wondrous and, to be frank, scary. We envision a world in which the sort of invisibility cloaks, the kind that appear in Harry ...

Heat has always been the hardest part of the spectrum to hide, yet a new experiment that boosts thermal scattering by a factor of nine suggests engineers are finally learning to sculpt it with the ...

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, ...

Researchers at the University of Rochester are reporting that they've built the first invisibility cloak that works in three dimensions, viewed from a range of angles, across the full spectral range ...

The desire to disappear has been strong throughout history. It didn’t go well for the protagonist in H. G. Wells’s The Invisible Man, but that is because his invisibility was permanent. What was ...

Hospitals, power grids, aerospace systems, and scientific laboratories all host extremely sensitive technologies that allow the facilities to do what they need to do—as long as no pesky, unwanted ...