Harry Potter’s iconic “Invisibility Cloak” could perhaps be within our sight. Chinese scientists have devised a camouflage ...

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 ...

Texas scientists create "mirage effect" in lab. Oct. 5, 2011 — -- It's hard to write about the experiment done at the University of Texas at Dallas without invoking Harry Potter and his ...

The great unappreciated weakness of invisibility cloaks is that they only make things invisible to human eyes. Or x-ray imagers. Or ultraviolet sensors, infrared image analyzers, echo-location audio ...