Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Since ancient times, people have experimented with light, cherishing shiny metals like gold and cutting gemstones to brighten ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Earthquakes can be made to bypass buildings surrounded by seismic invisibility cloaks, claim researchers at the University of Liverpool. “Numerical simulations have been carried out ...

DURHAM, N.C. — Using a new design theory, researchers at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering and Imperial College London have developed the blueprint for an invisibility cloak. Once devised, ...

Metamaterial-based electromagnetic cloaking encompasses a suite of approaches that steer, suppress or cancel the scattering of incident waves to render objects effectively invisible to detection. Two ...

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 around ...

The invisibility cloak is an artifact that can make the wearer transparent, rendering it undetectable to observers outside. Perhaps, one of the most well-known examples is the invisibility cloak ...