In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, Rowan Hooper reveals how ...

It’s not Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak just yet, but scientists say it has a lot of potential. The desire to become invisible dates back to the ancient Greeks, if not further.

In “Invisibility,” the professor of physics and optical science Gregory J. Gbur examines the past and future of everyone’s favorite plot device.

Invisibility cloaks were proposed in 2006 1, 2, and prototypes that can shield objects for certain wavelengths of light have since been built. However, until now, physicists have been unable to ...

Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; [email protected] Note to Journalists: An animation of the simulated invisibility cloak is available by contacting Emil Venere, Purdue News Service, at (765) ...