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

John Pendry is known for creating an invisibility cloak. Twenty years on, he has used the same principles to fashion an even ...

BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fractal Antenna Systems, Inc. (‘Fractal’) today announced it has secured patent on a method to detect invisibility cloaks and related stealth metamaterials, thus ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A B-2 stealth bomber takes off from Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, Nevada. In addition to using anti-reflective paint to ...

Aya Tsintziras is a freelance writer who writes about TV, movies, and has a particular interest in the horror genre. She has a Political Science degree from the University of Toronto and a Masters of ...

Science and fiction always had a chicken and egg relationship: it’s hard to tell which one informs the other. Take invisibility, a fantastical notion brought into popular culture first by HG Wells’ ...

Much has been made in recent years of breakthroughs in creating “invisibility cloaks” along the lines of those dreamed up by Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling. Now comes word out of China that ...

Your pervy, Harry Potter-fueled dreams are edging closer to reality, now British scientists have used metamaterials to bend light in a different manner to previous attempts. Now, it works with a ...

A researcher at the University of Texas at Austin has devised an invisibility cloak that could work over a broad range of frequencies, including visible light and microwaves. This is a significant ...

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 ...