The great unappreciated weakness of invisibility cloaks is that they only make things invisible to human eyes. Or x-ray imagers. Or ultraviolet sensors, infrared image analyzers, echo-location audio ...

Most invisibility cloaks under development actually make objects more visible overall, not less, scientists have revealed. This novel finding points to ways researchers can develop better invisibility ...

Invisibility cloaks and superlenses could be improved by taking a page from the digital playbook, two scientists contend September 14 in Nature Materials. Their method, inspired by the 1s and 0s of ...

Invisibility cloaks are designed to make objects look like they disappear to observers. Scientists have come a long way in developing a material that can actually do that in visible light. While the ...

(Nanowerk News) The first functional "cloaking" device reported by Duke University electrical engineers in 2006 worked like a charm, but it wasn't perfect. Now a member of that laboratory has ...

Could Harry Potter's invisibility cloak be one step closer to becoming a reality? A research team from Queen Mary University of London's School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science says it ...