WASHINGTON - The key to creating a Harry Potter-like invisibility cloak lies in man-made materials unlike any in nature or the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, researchers say. They're ...

Chinese researchers have moved a long-running science fiction fantasy into the realm of working hardware, unveiling a prototype cloak that can make a person effectively vanish from view. Instead of ...

Nick Fang of the University of Illinois created a two-dimensional acoustic cloak that can hide underwater objects by manipulating sound waves. “We are not talking about science fiction. We are talking ...

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 Thursday they ...

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 ...

Norris, a distinguished professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, is developing honeycomb-like metallic structures that reroute sound ...