Nick Fang of the University of Illinois created a two-dimensional acoustic cloak that can hide underwater objects by manipulating sound waves. “We are not talking about science fiction. We are talking ...

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 ...

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 ...

Theoretical physicists think they might have the makings of the world’s first ‘anti-invisibility cloak’, a device which, when layered beneath an invisibility cloak, renders any object within visible ...

Researchers have developed the first 3D, omnidirectional thermal “cloak” capable of making objects invisible to infrared cameras from any direction. Compared with previous designs that only worked in ...