A research team from multiple institutions in China has proposed a novel concept of a thermal dome that could significantly ...

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Concealing objects in direct light is already a difficult feat. While there is ongoing research into invisibility cloaks of some form or other, researchers at the Public University of Navarre ...

Novel research into cloaking technology conducted at a Spanish university has produced a potential method for making objects invisible from the inside out. Maybe the titular character in HG Wells’ ...

If you could choose one magical item, what would it be? Even if your answer is not Invisibility Cloak, you might be surprised at how many people are trying to design them. Well, if not Harry Potter’s ...

The race towards making invisibility cloaks a reality is getting more and more heated up. Scientists from the Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), for the first time ever, have now managed to ...

Invisibility shields have always seemed like a fun yet unrealistic creation destined to remain fictional forever. But not only has somebody figured out how to make a real one, they’ve done it using ...

Muggles are another step closer to donning a real-life invisibility cloak, as scientists have developed a new technology that can make things invisible under the sun. Spectral invisibility cloaking ...

When you think about ways to save money on your household electricity bill, there can’t be too many more eye-catching concepts that a solar panel invisibility cloak. That’s exactly what researchers at ...

Even though the classic Invisible Man took a potion to turn himself invisible, Whannell didn’t want to go there again. “I didn’t want him injecting a serum or something like that,” Whannell said.

Last week's report on the quest for invisibility sparked some pretty intriguing comments, including numerous claims that the military has already developed real-life invisibility cloaks. It sounds a ...