Science has been chasing the mythical invisibility cloak for years, and recent experiments have even shown the concept to be valid. But what if you want to go beyond simply hiding something from the ...

Metamaterials are carefully engineered materials that possess desirable properties and can be used to manipulate ...

Scientist Alfred Nobel created the Nobel prizes in his last will and testament for those who have 'conferred the greatest benefit on humankind' - Copyright AFP/File ...

John Pendry is known for creating an invisibility cloak. Twenty years on, he has used the same principles to fashion an even ...

Research into materials science illustrates how an invisibility cloak would actually work—and what the science means for ...

Magnetic cloaking has long sounded like a plot device from science fiction, but it is rapidly becoming a practical tool for managing the invisible forces that surround modern electronics. Instead of ...

Discovered: An even better invisibility cloak, the crime genes, working hard is depressing, the speed limit of particles, and heart attack deaths halved over the last 10 years.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A B-2 stealth bomber takes off from Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, Nevada. In addition to using anti-reflective paint to ...

The desire to disappear has been strong throughout history. It didn’t go well for the protagonist in H. G. Wells’s The Invisible Man, but that is because his invisibility was permanent. What was ...

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 ...

The CIA reportedly recently used top-secret technology to rescue a USAF soldier in Iran - but that weaponry is just the tip of the iceberg ...

Quantum communication and cryptography pose a significant future threat, especially with the possibility of ‘Q-Day’ when ...