A research team from multiple institutions in China has proposed a novel concept of a thermal dome that could significantly ...

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 ...

In a recent development, a research team from multiple institutions in China has proposed a novel concept of a thermal dome that could significantly advance the field of thermal invisibility ...

In the Harry Potter stories, an invisibility cloak can hide a person even while they walk, bend, or run. In the real world, scientists have long dreamed of creating something similar—materials that ...

Leafhoppers are the only species that secrete brochosomes: rare nanoparticles with invisibility properties. But for the first time, a group of scientists has created their own synthetic brochosomes.

Let's get one thing straight: scientists have not invented an invisibility cloak. Nor have they developed an invisibility ring, a car with an invisibility button, or a pill that makes pigs invisible.

In “Invisibility,” the professor of physics and optical science Gregory J. Gbur examines the past and future of everyone’s favorite plot device. By Nathaniel Rich When you purchase an independently ...