Research into materials science illustrates how an invisibility cloak would actually work—and what the science means for disaster mitigation.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A B-2 stealth bomber takes off from Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, Nevada. In addition to using anti-reflective paint to ...

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’ ...

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The lecture hall at UC San Diego’s Price Center was full Wednesday with an audience eager to hear about devices that can bend light and sound waves to change what we can see and hear — and perhaps ...

The fictional world of Harry Potter has inspired everything from film adaptations to criticisms of promotion of the occult but it may have sparked the imaginations of scientists who are working on a ...

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.