You might think invisibility cloaks exist only in the Wizarding World, but think again. A research team at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has developed a technology ...

A Chinese scientist’s viral demonstration shows how simple optics can make body parts vanish, sparking global debate over ...

Science and fiction always had a chicken and egg relationship: it’s hard to tell which one informs the other. Take invisibility, a fantastical notion brought into popular culture first by HG Wells’ ...

Imagine: You’re the proud owner of an invisibility cloak. What do you do? Do you sneak into concerts and make your way on stage? Spy on your friends to find out what they say about you when you’re not ...

Let's get one thing straight: scientists have not invented an invisibility cloak. Nor have they developed an invisibility ring, a car with an invisibility button, or a pill that makes pigs invisible.

Discovered: Wizard-like scientists make objects invisible; death is close when chromosome tips are worn down; pregnant women who contract flus are more likely to have autistic babies; prosthetic skin ...

Any object able to fit inside a one-inch diameter cylinder is rendered invisible, boasts Robert Schittny and his colleagues from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. The team have developed ...

Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have developed a method that makes objects on a magnetic field invisible within a particle stream. Until now, this so-called cloaking had only been studied ...

Harry Potter fans, rejoice. A cloak of invisibility, like the one featured in the movies, is now a reality -- on a much smaller scale at least. Inventors have been working toward this for a while now, ...