We tend to think of invisibility cloaks as science fiction. But one group of scientists has taken a big step toward making ...

A video captured on a Ring security camera has revealed a person wearing an invisibility cloak. The footage shows a mysterious figure where only a floating head and shoes are visible while walking ...

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Scientists might be a step closer to developing that Harry Potter-style invisibility cloak of your dreams. In 2015, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, in the US, created a thin ...

Light reflects off the cloak (red arrows) as if it were reflecting off a flat mirror. Washington - Invisibility skin cloaks on the microscopic scale might prove valuable for hiding the detailed ...

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In the Harry Potter novels, the cloak of invisibility enabled Harry and his friends, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, to explore Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry without being seen or ...

A researcher at the NUP/UPNA-Public University of Navarre has developed two types of invisibility cloak. One of them is useful in concealing sensors and antennas and thus eliminating interference, ...