Chinese researchers have moved a long-running science fiction fantasy into the realm of working hardware, unveiling a ...

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’ ...

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’ ...

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 ...

If you were given an invisibility cloak, what would you do with it? Harry Potter definitely wore the piece well as he used it to camouflage himself when he snuck off to Hogsmeade Village or hid from ...

Texas scientists create "mirage effect" in lab. Oct. 5, 2011 — -- It's hard to write about the experiment done at the University of Texas at Dallas without invoking Harry Potter and his ...

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 ...

In a recent development, a research team from multiple institutions in China has proposed a novel concept of a thermal dome that could significantly advance the field of thermal invisibility ...