From the wish-granting jinn of Arabian folklore to the shadow people of Inuit mythology, creatures possessing the fantastical ...

Science has been chasing the mythical invisibility cloak for years, and recent experiments have even shown the concept to be valid. But what if you want to go beyond simply hiding something from the ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON - A cloak of invisibility may be common in science fiction but it is not so easy in the real world. New research suggests such a device may be moving closer to reality. Scientists said on ...

Exploring a real-life invisibility cloak experiment.

Imagine: You’re the proud owner of an invisibility cloak. What do you do? Do you sneak into concerts and make your way on stage? Spy on your friends to find out what they say about you when you’re not ...

The theorists who first created the mathematics that describe the behavior of the recently announced “invisibility cloak” have revealed a new analysis that may extend the current cloak’s powers, ...

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 ...

Heat has always been the hardest part of the spectrum to hide, yet a new experiment that boosts thermal scattering by a factor of nine suggests engineers are finally learning to sculpt it with the ...

WASHINGTON — Scientists are boldly going where only fiction has gone before — to develop a cloak of invisibility. It isn’t quite ready to hide a Romulan space ship from Captain James T. Kirk or to ...

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 ...