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 ...

Texas scientists create "mirage effect" in lab. Oct. 5, 2011 — -- It's hard to write about the experiment done at the University of Texas at Dallas without invoking Harry Potter and his ...

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 ...

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, ...

Exploring a real-life invisibility cloak experiment.

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 ...

A Canadian company called Hyperstealth is reporting that it has developed Quantum Stealth, a material that renders the target "completely invisible by bending light waves around the target." If the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...