Chinese researchers have succeeded in using a highly novel approach to craft a Teflon-based invisibility cloak in just 15 minutes. The process, called topology optimization, uses computer software to ...

We have been reporting on invisibility cloaks since starry-eyed theorists managed to show that it was mathematically possible to design a structure that prevented electromagnetic waves from ...

Researchers at Northwestern University have designed an invisibility cloak that can temporally hide objects for an indefinite period of time. Objects covered by this invisibility cloak wouldn't ...

If your favorite part of the entire Harry Potter series was his invisibility cloak (and its propensity to get everyone's favorite wizard into trouble), you're in luck. New research developed by ...

Invisibility cloaks and superlenses could be improved by taking a page from the digital playbook, two scientists contend September 14 in Nature Materials. Their method, inspired by the 1s and 0s of ...

Canada’s Hyperstealth Biotechnology already manufactures camouflage uniforms for militaries across the globe. But now, the company has patented a new “Quantum Stealth” material that disguises a ...

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 ...