An "invisibility cloak" that's able to hide items thousands of times larger than before now exists, scientists say. The first hints that cloaking devices might one day become more than just a "Star ...

Objects large enough to be seen with the naked eye have been swept under an 'invisibility carpet' for the first time. If you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism ...

It a dream possession that until now has been consigned to Harry Potter and Lord Of The Rings-a cloak that will render the wearer invisible. However, a recent paper published in 'Nature Materials' has ...

A calcite carpet-cloak can shield a steel wedge a few centimetres long. Zhang, B. et al. Until now, physicists have been unable to fabricate a cloak that could hide macroscopic items at visible ...

Two independent groups of physicists have built invisibility cloaks that can shield large objects lying on a plane. These “carpet cloaks” are far closer to the intuitive idea of an invisibility cloak ...

This fence is not as advertised, sir. The last time we wrote about invisibility cloaks was when metamaterials were used to conceal all of the visual spectrum except violet. Now two different research ...

Lately, it seems like you can't click on a handful of links on the internet without running into some kind of prototype invisibility cloak. Though this device can now be added to that list, it's more ...

Objects large enough to be seen with the naked eye have been swept under an 'invisibility carpet' for the first time. Invisibility cloaks were proposed in 2006, and prototypes that can shield objects ...