New research shows that 3D-printed metasurfaces can form flexible invisibility cloaks that conform to any complex shape. And ...

It's a scene torn from the pages of "Harry Potter" or "The Lord of the Rings." In mid-November 2022, a video went viral showing a woman donning an alleged invisibility cloak. The videos were shared ...

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 ...

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’ ...

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 ...

Researchers at the University of Rochester are reporting that they've built the first invisibility cloak that works in three dimensions, viewed from a range of angles, across the full spectral range ...

You know how a princess can feel a pea through 20 mattresses and 20 feather beds? Well, not any more. Researchers in Germany have created the first mechanical invisibility cloak. When this cloak is ...

DURHAM, N.C. — A team led by scientists at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering has demonstrated the first working “invisibility cloak.” The cloak deflects microwave beams so they flow around ...