From fiction to reality: Chinese scientist creates real-life Harry Potter–like invisibility cloak

A Chinese scientist’s viral demonstration shows how simple optics can make body parts vanish, sparking global debate over ...
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A working invisibility cloak may soon be a reality

WASHINGTON - 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 ...

How scientists are making the power of invisibility a reality

From the wish-granting jinn of Arabian folklore to the shadow people of Inuit mythology, creatures possessing the fantastical ...
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Scientists have built an invisibility cloak that could make your stomach look flat

Imagine: You’re the proud owner of an invisibility cloak. What do you do? Do you sneak into concerts and make your way on stage? Spy on your friends to find out what they say about you when you’re ...
Business Wire

Fractal Secures Patent on Invisibility Cloak Detection

BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fractal Antenna Systems, Inc. (‘Fractal’) today announced it has secured patent on a method to detect invisibility cloaks and related stealth metamaterials, thus ...
SpaceNews

First demonstration of a working invisibility cloak

DURHAM, N.C. — A team led by scientists at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering has demonstrated the first working “invisibility cloak.” The cloak deflects microwave beams so they flow ...
ExtremeTech

The first 'unfeelability' invisibility cloak will please campers and princesses everywhere

You know how a princess can feel a pea through 20 mattresses and 20 feather beds? Well, not any more. Researchers in Germany have created the first mechanical invisibility cloak. When this cloak ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Researchers create 3D invisibility cloak

European researchers have taken the world a step closer to fictional wizard Harry Potter's invisibility cape after they made an object disappear using a three-dimensional cloak. Scientists from ...