The notorious disease known as sleeping sickness can lurk inside a host for months or even years before serious symptoms ...

Rather than building stronger ocean-based structures to withstand tsunamis, it might be easier to simply make the structures disappear. A collaboration of physicists from the Centre National de la ...

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: ...

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 ...

Are physics – not magic — the key to a Harry Potter-style invisibility cloak? New research indicates yes. A recent study by researchers from Imperial College London involves a new class of space-aged ...

The solution published last month in the journal Physical Review Letters examines processes for linear wave disruption. The shielding concept uses rows of pillars placed in a cylindrical pattern ...

Engineers at Duke University, North Carolina, have used 3D printing to create an object that can shield against detection from microwave beams. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes ...

University of Utah mathematicians developed a new cloaking method, and it’s unlikely to lead to invisibility cloaks like those used by Harry Potter or Romulan spaceships in “Star Trek.” Instead, the ...

For nearly 20 years, physicists and engineers have chased the idea of invisibility. Early efforts focused on hiding objects from light using so-called metamaterials with extreme and often unrealistic ...