A wizard wraps himself in a cloak and disappears. A star pilot flicks a switch, and their ship vanishes into space. Invisibility is one of the most tantalizing powers in fiction, spanning all kinds of ...

If you could choose one magical item, what would it be? Imagine having an Invisibility Cloak or learning about groundbreaking ...

In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, Rowan Hooper reveals how ...

Harry Potter, take that. Nanotechnology scientists at the University of Texas at Dallas have created invisibility cloaking -- the so-called mirage effect -- in the lab using carbon nanotubes.

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 ...

Ukraine has reportedly developed a real-life “invisibility cloak” that can hide soldiers from Russian thermal cameras thanks to its unique properties that block heat signature radiation. The ...

How Could Harry's Cloak of Invisibility Avoid Feeling Overpowered? Since this specific cloak doesn't lose its charm, including it in Hogwarts Legacy 2 could make sneaking around feel far too easy.