A divorced mother of a young child quietly publishes a children's book about a young orphan who receives an invisibility cloak as a Christmas present. Only 1,000 copies of Harry Potter and the ...

We envision a world in which the sort of invisibility cloaks, the kind that appear in Harry Potter books and movies, could soon be reality. We’d be able to disappear just like that. A number of ...

This study demonstrated the first full-parameter omnidirectional invisibility cloak in free space, which can conceal a large-scale object for arbitrary incident illumination.

Sahana is a science journalist and an intern at The Scientist, with a background in neuroscience and microbiology. She has previously written for Live Science, Massive Science, and eLife. View Full ...

Invented and manufactured in Czechia, a special cloak that can make soldiers invisible to enemy drones is being used ...

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 ...

Students at the University of Rochester have developed a clever optical system which allows for limited invisibility thanks to a bit of optic sorcery physics. Almost all invisibility technologies ...

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 ...

At present, U.S. troops use high-tech camouflage equipment called "Vatec" that allows the wearer to hide from infra-red and heat-seeking devices. But scientists are developing much more sophisticated ...