Finally, according to Chee Wei Wong, the lead researcher, this breakthrough might lead us towards a cloak of invisibility. “We can now control the flow of light, the fastest thing known to us ...

A new light-canceling technique could help scientists make thin invisibility cloaks that block a large range of wavelengths. The new technique is “a smart engineering trick” that is “quite ...

A new "broadband" invisibility cloak which hides objects over a wide range of frequencies has been devised. Despite the hype about Harry Potter-style cloaks, our best current designs can only ...

On the battlefield, an invisibility cloak could be just the ticket. Straight out of a Harry Potter adventure, the cloak is covered with tiny light-reflective beads. It appears to be transparent as ...

Invisibility cloaks may be a long shot, but new optical tricks could help in the design of future computers. ... Light rays passing from one transparent material to another generally refract, ...

Harry Potter eat your heart out! Scientists develop an 'invisibility shield' that can hide objects by bending light. The invisibility shield uses a special lens array to redirect light ...

Of course, it would be researchers in perpetually heat-stricken Dallas who would find a way to simulate one of nature's most engaging heat-caused phenomena: the mirage. Still… ...

A researcher at Duke university, with the support of the U.S. Army Research Office, has developed a technique for printing an invisibility “cloak” on a standard plastic 3-D printer.

The oceans of the world are home to animals that render themselves invisible with glowing eyeshadow. They’re called glass squid and, as their name suggests, they are largely transparent. They ...

To patch the holes in their invisibility cloak, glass frogs deploy a radical option. In the hour or so before they drift off to sleep, roughly 90 percent of their blood cells march into their pea ...

"Transparent" photonics chip may lead to faster networks and cloaks of invisibility A new photonic chip that allows light to pass through it without loss of speed or phase could revolutionize ...