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, ...

What do Harry Potter's invisibility cloak and stealth fighter jets that evade radar have in common? They both make objects ...

What do Harry Potter's invisibility cloak and stealth fighter jets that evade radar have in common? They both make objects invisible despite their ...

From cloaking devices that conceal spaceships, to Harry Potter’s hand-me-down disappearing blanket, or even the One Ring and its power to conceal its wearer, invisibility is a staple in science ...

University of Leicester engineers have unveiled a concept for a device designed to magnetically "cloak" sensitive components, ...

Cloaking technology has moved beyond fiction, with scientists making surprising progress toward invisibility..

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A new light-bending material has brought scientists one step closer to creating a cloaking device that could hide objects from sight. Beyond possible military applications, it also ...

If you were given an invisibility cloak, what would you do with it? Harry Potter definitely wore the piece well as he used it to camouflage himself when he snuck off to Hogsmeade Village or hid from ...

Leafhoppers (left) are a common backyard insect that secrete amazingly complex nanoparticles called brochosomes (right).Lin Wang and Tak-Sing Wong Leafhoppers are the only species that secrete ...

Network administrators worried about the security hole Skype represents have a new headache today: Just-released Skype 3.0 includes new cloaking technology that makes it harder to detect than ever. So ...