Research into materials science illustrates how an invisibility cloak would actually work—and what the science means for disaster mitigation.

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 ...

Chinese researchers have moved a long-running science fiction fantasy into the realm of working hardware, unveiling a prototype cloak that can make a person effectively vanish from view. Instead of ...

The lecture hall at UC San Diego’s Price Center was full Wednesday with an audience eager to hear about devices that can bend light and sound waves to change what we can see and hear — and perhaps ...

In Lineage Classic, there is an item called the 'Invisibility Cloak' that, when used alongside Shock Stun and Triple, ...

Metamaterials are carefully engineered materials that possess desirable properties and can be used to manipulate ...

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 ...

(via TEDEd) A spy presses a button on their suit and blinks out of sight. A wizard wraps himself in a cloak and disappears. A star pilot flicks a switch, and their ship vanishes into space.

In brief: Researchers in China may be on the verge of bringing invisibility cloaks from the Harry Potter movies to life. A team from the University of Electronic Science and Technology claims to have ...