New research shows that 3D-printed metasurfaces can form flexible invisibility cloaks that conform to any complex shape. And that’s not all they can do.

Harry Potter’s iconic “Invisibility Cloak” could perhaps be within our sight. Chinese scientists have devised a camouflage material that adjusts its molecular composition to blend into the background, ...

Invisibility cloaks used to be the stuff of science fiction. Now they are a piece of tech that could be crucial to modern ...

The future is near, and it will be frivolous. In a paper titled “An ultrathin invisibility skin cloak for visible light,” published this week in Science, researchers from UC Berkeley and the Berkeley ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research shows magnetic cloaks can be built for real-world shapes using superconductors and soft magnets. (CREDIT: ...

Magnetic invisibility sounds simple in theory. Place the right materials around an object and magnetic fields flow around it as if nothing were there. Reality has been far messier. For nearly two ...

Hospitals, power grids, aerospace systems, and scientific laboratories all host extremely sensitive technologies that allow the facilities to do what they need to do—as long as no pesky, unwanted ...

A maths theory powering computer image compression, an "invisibility cloak" or the science behind the James Webb Space Telescope are some achievements that could be honoured when the Nobel physics ...