Octopus and other cephalopods are good at hiding themselves—and are inspiring cutting-edge technologies that may help us do ...

The immune system provides constant surveillance for the body, aiming to spot and eliminate disease-causing microbes or ...

Two magicians physicists at the University of Rochester in New York have created an invisibility cloak capable of hiding large objects, such as humans, buses, or satellites, from visible light.

Making something invisible is a big call. You not only have to stop people from seeing the thing itself, you have to make sure they can still see what's behind it — otherwise that big empty gap tends ...

What would you think if I told you that there is technology available today that could make you vanish? It’s true. Thanks to optical engineering, it's possible to become invisible to the naked eye.

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.

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 ...

This is no magician’s act. British start-up Invisibility Shield Co. has revealed that it has created a 6-foot-tall “Megashield” being sold for $828 — which they claim can make multiple people ...

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

Invisibility shields have always seemed like a fun yet unrealistic creation destined to remain fictional forever. But not only has somebody figured out how to make a real one, they’ve done it using ...

Scientists have long believed the key to an invisibility cloak, as featured in Harry Potter, is the manipulation of light. The fundamentally new approach overcomes critical shortcomings of previous ...

German scientists experiment with hiding 3-D objects by bending light waves. March 20, 2010— -- It was once the stuff of movie wizards: a cloak that can make someone disappear. But now, thanks to ...