Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Since ancient times, people have experimented with light, cherishing shiny metals like gold and cutting gemstones to brighten ...

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 ...

Scientists exploring a novel but highly promising avenue of cancer treatment have developed a type of "invisibility cloak" that helps engineered bacteria sneak through the body's immune defenses. The ...

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: ...

Rather than building stronger ocean-based structures to withstand tsunamis, it might be easier to simply make the structures disappear. A collaboration of physicists from the Centre National de la ...

WASHINGTON, April 19–Invisibility cloaks are seemingly futuristic devices capable of concealing very small objects by bending and channeling light around them. Until now, however, cloaking techniques ...

The solution published last month in the journal Physical Review Letters examines processes for linear wave disruption. The shielding concept uses rows of pillars placed in a cylindrical pattern ...

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 ...