Your pervy, Harry Potter-fueled dreams are edging closer to reality, now British scientists have used metamaterials to bend light in a different manner to previous attempts. Now, it works with a ...

SAN FRANCISCO — In the TV series Star Trek, cloaking devices were first introduced and used by the Romulans that caused their spaceships to become invisible. Is cloaking a reality today? At this ...

Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have developed a method that makes objects on a magnetic field invisible within a ...

The great unappreciated weakness of invisibility cloaks is that they only make things invisible to human eyes. Or x-ray imagers. Or ultraviolet sensors, infrared image analyzers, echo-location audio ...

This University of Missouri-developed structured lattice-type material protects against damage from mechanical energy waves, steering them around objects that it encloses. Harry Potter acolytes are ...