Your pervy, Harry Potter-fueled dreams are edging closer to reality, now British scientists have used metamaterials to bend light in a different manner to previous attempts. Now, it works with a ...
SAN FRANCISCO — In the TV series Star Trek, cloaking devices were first introduced and used by the Romulans that caused their spaceships to become invisible. Is cloaking a reality today? At this ...
WASHINGTON - A cloak of invisibility may be common in science fiction but it is not so easy in the real world. New research suggests such a device may be moving closer to reality. Scientists said on ...
Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have developed a method that makes objects on a magnetic field invisible within a ...
This University of Missouri-developed structured lattice-type material protects against damage from mechanical energy waves, steering them around objects that it encloses. Harry Potter acolytes are ...
PORTLAND, Ore. — Earthquakes can be made to bypass buildings surrounded by seismic invisibility cloaks, claim researchers at the University of Liverpool. “Numerical simulations have been carried out ...
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 ...