Harry Potter has nothing on the researchers at Duke University , who say they’re getting close to developing an actual invisibility cloak . While the fictional wizard uses his cloak to roam the halls ...

Harry Potter’s iconic “Invisibility Cloak” could perhaps be within our sight. Chinese scientists have devised a camouflage material that adjusts its molecular composition to blend into the background, ...

Duke University has built the first 3D omnidirectional acoustic invisibility cloak. The cloaking device, which takes the form of a pyramid of perforated plastic, is hidden from sound waves striking it ...

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 ...