What do Harry Potter's invisibility cloak and stealth fighter jets that evade radar have in common? They both make objects ...

As one of four fundamental forces in nature, magnetism is virtually everywhere in the world. Many technologies—hard drives, ...

Two magicians physicists at the University of Rochester in New York have created an invisibility cloak capable of hiding large objects, such as humans, buses, or satellites, from visible light.

Researchers cracked the code of nature's anti-reflective technology, manufacturing leafhopper-inspired particles that cut ...

In “Invisibility,” the professor of physics and optical science Gregory J. Gbur examines the past and future of everyone’s favorite plot device. By Nathaniel Rich When you purchase an independently ...

Leafhoppers are the only species that secrete brochosomes: rare nanoparticles with invisibility properties. But for the first time, a group of scientists has created their own synthetic brochosomes.

Invisibility shields have always seemed like a fun yet unrealistic creation destined to remain fictional forever. But not only has somebody figured out how to make a real one, they’ve done it using ...

Scientists have long believed the key to an invisibility cloak, as featured in Harry Potter, is the manipulation of light. The fundamentally new approach overcomes critical shortcomings of previous ...

A British startup claims to have created a real world “invisibility shield” that doesn’t even need power to operate. Think of it as Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak, but in the shape of a flat piece ...

German scientists experiment with hiding 3-D objects by bending light waves. March 20, 2010— -- It was once the stuff of movie wizards: a cloak that can make someone disappear. But now, thanks to ...

A comprehensive analysis of English-language literature published over the last century reveals distinct patterns in how race ...

After five years of steady progress, scientists are now edging closer and closer to mastering real-world invisibility. Sure, researchers have already made marked strides toward making objects ...