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 ...

Invisibility cloaks sound like pure fiction, straight out of fantasy books and superhero films. (We all remember Harry Potter’s!) However, science has actually been poking at the idea for years, and ...

George Eleftheriades and Michael Selvanayagam, researchers at the University of Toronto, have designed and tested a new approach to invisibility cloaking. Their method involves surrounding an object ...

(via TEDEd) A spy presses a button on their suit and blinks out of sight. A wizard wraps himself in a cloak and disappears. A star pilot flicks a switch, and their ship vanishes into space.

Remember the Invisibility Shield that launched on Kickstarter just over two years ago? The British startup Invisibility Shield Co’s eye-tricking gizmo, which is roughly as flat as a piece of cardboard ...

Imagine you found a ring that made you invisible. You could do anything—take what you wanted, harm your enemies, advance your interests—with absolute impunity. No one would ever know. No consequences ...