There’s something that some of us want to believe — something weird and wondrous and, to be frank, scary. We envision a world in which the sort of invisibility cloaks, the kind that appear in Harry ...

Invisibility cloaks sound like pure fiction, straight out of fantasy books and superhero films. (We all remember Harry Potter’s!) However, science has actually been poking at the idea for years, and ...

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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(via TEDEd) A spy presses a button on their suit and blinks out of sight. A wizard wraps himself in a cloak and disappears. A star pilot flicks a switch, and their ship vanishes into space.

Remember the Invisibility Shield that launched on Kickstarter just over two years ago? The British startup Invisibility Shield Co’s eye-tricking gizmo, which is roughly as flat as a piece of cardboard ...

Leafhoppers are the only species that secrete brochosomes: rare nanoparticles with invisibility properties. But for the first time, a group of scientists has created their own synthetic brochosomes.

In the Harry Potter books and movies, the young wizard is gifted with a remarkable cloak. The user who wears it becomes invisible, able to slip out of sticky situations and eavesdrop on evildoers, ...