As one of four fundamental forces in nature, magnetism is virtually everywhere in the world. Many technologies—hard drives, ...
In the Harry Potter stories, an invisibility cloak can hide a person even while they walk, bend, or run. In the real world, ...
What do Harry Potter's invisibility cloak and stealth fighter jets that evade radar have in common? They both make objects ...
Your pervy, Harry Potter-fueled dreams are edging closer to reality, now British scientists have used metamaterials to bend light in a different manner to previous attempts. Now, it works with a ...
University of Leicester engineers have unveiled a concept for a device designed to magnetically "cloak" sensitive components, ...
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 audio ...
A researcher at the University of Texas at Austin has devised an invisibility cloak that could work over a broad range of frequencies, including visible light and microwaves. This is a significant ...
Invisibility is an intriguing futuristic possibility. Growing interest in such mystery of making yourself invisible began as far back as 1933 with the science-fiction film “The Invisible Man” and ...