Invisibility cloaks and deflector shields, once a staple of popular science-fiction, are now the real deal, researchers say. Cloaking and shields have long protected starcruisers from blaster shots ...

Mathematicians developed a new cloaking method, and it's unlikely to lead to invisibility cloaks like those used by Harry Potter or Romulan spaceships in "Star Trek." Instead, the new method someday ...

University of Utah mathematicians developed a new cloaking method, and it’s unlikely to lead to invisibility cloaks like those used by Harry Potter or Romulan spaceships in “Star Trek.” Instead, the ...

A new approach to invisibility cloaking may one day be used at sea to shield floating objects – such as oil rigs and ships – from rough waves. Unlike most other cloaking techniques that rely on ...

You might think invisibility cloaks exist only in the Wizarding World, but think again. A research team at the Korea Advanced ...

French researchers say special coatings can isolate objects from heat or concentrate heat, similar to how waves are diffused for cloaking. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

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 ...

“Red Alert! Phasers standby to fire on my order,” says Captain James Tiberius Kirk of the starship Enterprise, the famed starship with the mission “to explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and ...

3D and cross-sectional views of an optimized Superconducting (SC)- Soft-Ferromagnetic bilayer (SFM) cloak. At the left no SFM is used showing the diamagnetic response of the SC. At the right the ...

A new approach to invisibility cloaking may one day be used at sea to shield floating objects – such as oil rigs and ships – from rough waves. Unlike most other cloaking techniques that rely on ...