University of Utah mathematicians developed a new cloaking method, and it’s unlikely to lead to invisibility cloaks like those used by Harry Potter or Romulan spaceships in “Star Trek.” Instead, the ...

The theorists who first created the mathematics that describe the behavior of the recently announced “invisibility cloak” have revealed a new analysis that may extend the current cloak’s powers, ...

From cloaking devices that conceal spaceships, to Harry Potter’s hand-me-down disappearing blanket, or even the One Ring and its power to conceal its wearer, invisibility is a staple in science ...

DARPA, the governmental department that researches crazy things that may eventually make it into the military, is currently working on an “ultrasonic curtain”. In layman’s terms, it’s a sonic cloaking ...

Harry Potter’s iconic “Invisibility Cloak” could perhaps be within our sight. Chinese scientists have devised a camouflage material that adjusts its molecular composition to blend into the background, ...

Key Points and Summary - That dramatic “smoke” around the F-22 isn’t a sci-fi cloaking device—it’s a vapor cone. -During high-G or near-transonic maneuvers in humid air, pressure drops cause moisture ...

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 ...

Researchers make a cloaking device that is more than a theoretical dream, but not exactly cloaking as the trekkies among us know it.<BR><BR><a href='http ...

Physicists Moti Fridman and colleagues at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) have successfully demonstrated a time-cloaking device that can “hide” time for 15 trillionths of a second. In a paper ...

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